Question

Wat is the similarity between the Snub by the side of the hills and they
Theo the highway​

Answer 1

Answer:

The poem is very simple in theme and language. The poem consists of four stanzas containing four lines each. It follows a rhyme scheme of ‘abab’. The last word of every line rhymes with every alternate line like ‘hill’ and ’rill’, ’be’ and ‘tree’ etc. throughout the poem. Use of the conditional clauses beginning with ‘if’ gives the poem a good flow and supports the theme of the poem very well.

Be the Best: Figures of Speech

Douglas Malloch here in this poem has used contrasting examples from nature to make metaphors for something big and its corresponding small one in regard to achievements in life:

A pine versus a Scrub

A tree versus a bush

A bush versus a bit of grass

Muskie versus bass

Captain versus crew

Highway versus trail and

The sun versus a star

Alliteration is used in some of the lines as shown below:

If you can’t be a bush be a bit of the grass,

And some highway happier make;

Repetition is also used in the following lines:

There’s big work to do and there’s lesser to do,

And the task we must do is the near.

There’s a transferred epithet or hypallage in the line