Sound Devices
The rhyming words clatter, latter, and patter is used as onomatopeia and puts emphasis on the fact that Salome is hungover, from heavy drinking. Usually, when someone is hung over their senses don't function properly and they can get really sensitive to loud sounds. With the repetition of the sound "-atter", a type of onomatopeia, the reader can get a grasp on what Salome was experiencing personally.
Half rhymes and feminine rhymes are used through in the poem, for example, Peter (14), better (15), butter (16), clatter (18), clutter (20), patter (21), biter (30), blighter (29), slaughter (31) and batter (23). These half and feminine rhymes tie the mostly disjointed thoughts of Salome together to make them more coherent and make the poem easier to flow. These can also be identified as end rhyme by having the words placed on the end of the sentence.
"so rang for the maid." (16) utilizes onomatopeia which makes the sound effect of a bell ringing sound realistic and easily imaginable.
"In tile mirror, I saw m eyes glitter (33)" can be another onomatopoeia by the use of word "glitter", which the audience can imagine her eyes sparkling. The word "sticky" in the line "I flung back the sticky red sheets," (34) in another example because the audience can feel the stickiness and the rough surface area of the sheet by the blood drying up on it.
Line 30, "the beater or biter" is an alliteration. This has an effect of stressing the the two words and the "b" is a plosive, creating a small explosive sound to create a provocative and harsh mood.
"Strange" (14) has an effect of sibilance, creating a hissing sound to create a mood of disapproval and confusion on how Salome does not understand how the face is colder than pewter (13).
Half rhymes and feminine rhymes are used through in the poem, for example, Peter (14), better (15), butter (16), clatter (18), clutter (20), patter (21), biter (30), blighter (29), slaughter (31) and batter (23). These half and feminine rhymes tie the mostly disjointed thoughts of Salome together to make them more coherent and make the poem easier to flow. These can also be identified as end rhyme by having the words placed on the end of the sentence.
"so rang for the maid." (16) utilizes onomatopeia which makes the sound effect of a bell ringing sound realistic and easily imaginable.
"In tile mirror, I saw m eyes glitter (33)" can be another onomatopoeia by the use of word "glitter", which the audience can imagine her eyes sparkling. The word "sticky" in the line "I flung back the sticky red sheets," (34) in another example because the audience can feel the stickiness and the rough surface area of the sheet by the blood drying up on it.
Line 30, "the beater or biter" is an alliteration. This has an effect of stressing the the two words and the "b" is a plosive, creating a small explosive sound to create a provocative and harsh mood.
"Strange" (14) has an effect of sibilance, creating a hissing sound to create a mood of disapproval and confusion on how Salome does not understand how the face is colder than pewter (13).