Question

What effect does Emily Dickinson's use of assonance and consonance create in this final stanza of her poem "A narrow Fellow in the Grass"?

But never met this Fellow
Attended or alone
Without a tighter Breathing
And Zero at the Bone.

Answer 1

The long e and o sounds support the stanza's point about the emotional effect of walking up on a snake, even if you, like the poem's speaker, generally admire wild animals.

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