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Sound Symbolism
Task D - 'Ode to Autumn'
In the four lines quoted below from Keats's 'Ode
to Autumn', the last line is often felt by readers to be sound symbolic.
What phonetic properties give rise to this feeling?: Compare your responses
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And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
Steady thy laden head across a brook;
Or by a cider press, with patient look,
Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours.
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(John Keats  ,
'To Autumn')
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