FOUND POEM

Take Me Back
By: Katie Kolodziejczyk

Take me back

Seven and Nine back in those years
hearts fluttered

Never any tears

Fallin’ in love with a bad boy

"don't lose your heart yet"

with no intentions at all

They couldn't stop her

She wasn't that little girl anymore

Old and new pictures in frames,

Life is a runaway train

Need you here next to me

Kinda crazy.

PINK- TAYLOR SWIFT
BLUE- TOBY KEITH
GREEN- SUGARLAND

REPITITION OF SOUNDS #2

"Letter To Me"

By: Brad Paisley

If I could write a letter to me

And send it back in time to myself at 17

First I'd prove it's me by saying look under your bed

There's a Skoal can and a Playboy no one else would know you hid

And then I'd say I know it's tough

When you break up after seven months

And yeah I know you really liked her and it just don't seem fair

All I can say is pain like that is fast and it's rare

And oh you got so much going for you going right

But I know at 17 it's hard to see past Friday night

She wasn't right for you

And still you feel like there's a knife sticking out of your back

And you're wondering if you'll survive

You'll make it through this and you'll see

You're still around to write this letter to me

At the stop sign at Tomlinson and Eighth

Always stop completely don't just tap your breaks

And when you get a date with Bridgett make sure the tank is full

On second thought forget it that one turns out kinda cool

Each and every time you have a fight

Just assume you're wrong and dad is right

And you should really thank Mrs. Brinkman

She spent so much extra time

It's like she sees the diamond underneath

And she's polishin' you 'til you shine

And oh you got so much going for you going right

But I know at 17 it's hard to see past Friday night

Tonight's the bonfire rally

But you're staying home instead because if you fail Algebra

Mom and dad will kill you dead

Trust me you'll squeak by and get a C

And you're still around to write this letter to me

You've got so much up ahead

You'll make new friends

You should see your kids and wife

And I'd end by saying have no fear

These are nowhere near the best years of your life

I guess I'll see you in the mirror

When you're a grown man

P.S. go hug Aunt Rita every chance you can

And oh you got so much going for you going right

But I know at 17 it's hard to see past Friday night

I wish you'd study Spanish

I wish you'd take a typing class

I wish you wouldn't worry, let it be

I'd say have a little faith and you'll see

If I could write a letter to me

To me

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Consonance- Green

Assonance- Purple

REPETITION OF SOUNDS #1

"I Told You So"

By Carrie Underwood

VerseI

Suppose I called you up tonight

And told you that I love you

And suppose I said I want to come back home

And suppose I cried and said I think I finally learned my lesson

And Im tired of spending all my time alone

If I told you that I realized you're all I ever wanted

And it's killing me to be so far away

Would you tell me that you love me too

And would we cry together

Or would you simply laugh at me and say...

ChorusI

told you so, Oh I told you so

I told you some day you would come crawling back

And asking me to take you in

I told you so, but you had to go

Now I've found somebody new

And you will never break my heart in two again

VerseII

If I got down on my knees

And told you I was yours forever

Would you get down on yours too and take my hand

Would we get that old-time feeling

Would we laugh and talk for hours

The way we did when our love first began

Would you tell me that you've missed me too

And that you've been so lonely

And you've waited for the day that I returned

And we'd live and love forever

And that I'm your one and only

Or would you say the tables finally turned

would you say

ChorusII

I told you so, Oh I told you so

I told you some day you would come crawling back

And asking me to take you in

I told you so, but you had to go

Now I've found somebody new

And you will never break my heart in two again

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Alliteration- Red

Consonance- Green

Assonance- Purple

ANAPHORA

"All Summer Long"

By: Kid Rock

It was 1989, my thoughts were short my hair was long

Caught somewhere between a boy and man

She was seventeen and she was far from in-between

It was summertime in Northern Michigan

Ahh Ahh AhhAhh Ahh Ahh

Splashing through the sand bar

Talking by the campfire

It's the simple things in life, like when and where

We didn't have no internet

But man I never will forget

The way the moonlight shined upon her hair

[Chorus:]

And we were trying different things

We were smoking funny things

Making love out by the lake to our favorite song

Sipping whiskey out the bottle, not thinking 'bout tomorrow

Singing Sweet home Alabama all summer long

Singing Sweet home Alabama all summer long

Catching Walleye from the dock

Watching the waves roll off the rocks

She'll forever hold a spot inside my soul

We'd blister in the sun

We couldn't wait for night to come

To hit that sand and play some rock and roll

While we were trying different things

And we were smoking funny things

Making love out by the lake to our favorite song

Sipping whiskey out the bottle, not thinking 'bout tomorrow

Singing Sweet Home Alabama all summer long

Singing Sweet Home Alabama all summer long

Now nothing seems as strange as when the leaves began to change

Or how we thought those days would never end

Sometimes I'll hear that song and I'll start to sing along

And think man I'd love to see that girl again

[Repeat Chorus x2]

Singing Sweet Home Alabama all summer long

Singing Sweet Home Alabama all summer long

Singing Sweet Home Alabama all summer long

Singing Sweet Home Alabama all summer long

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This song by Kid Rock is about a teenage couple's summer love and how it turned into the sweetest of memories for them. He recalls his favorite parts of that summer and states "I'd love to see that girl again". An example of an Anaphora is "We were trying different things, we were smoking different things". This is an example because the first part in each line is repeated the same. It enhances the song because it just fits in the right places where as other songs if continuously says the same verse over and over again it gets boring and annoying.

EPISTROPHE

"That's a Man"

by Jack Ingram

Saw a story on the local news last night

About one more struggling single mother

She was talking about how hard it is getting by

With no help, no money, no nothing from the baby's father

Made me think about this guy I know with a wife and a child

Who's working two jobs just to get by

Yeah, he says he'd do anything he could in this world

Just to give his young family a better life;

yeah, a better life

Oh, that's a man

That's a 19-year-old, modern-day hero man

Those two young Marines over there fighting for their country

Man, they're gonna be friends forever

They've both come back eventually

But as bonds and destiny would have it

They don't come back together

Yeah, the one who lived to tell about

Why he can't even talk about it

Keeps fighting that fight up there in his head

Ain't a day goes by he don't wonder why

Why it wasn't me instead

It could've been me instead

Oh, that's a man

That's a you don't know how hard he tried to save his buddy's life man

I don't know about you

Sometimes, I just need a little reminder

And reach down and find some understanding

Find some kind of kindness

Read about a man who said his family

Had been farming the same land in Ohio for 100 years

Felt like he'd paid for it ten times over

With his own blood, his own sweat, and his own tears

If he had to, he'd be out there on that tractor working

Seven long, hot days a week

Yeah, he's the kind of feller that people get real quiet

When he stands up in church to speak

They know when he speaks

Oh, that's a man

That's a stand tall, walk straight

Put God's share in the collection plate man

Oh, that's a man

Oh, that's a man

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This song is about the definition of a "real man". It speaks about the hardships and bravery each man in this song went through to make him real strong by caring about other people rather then themselves. An example of Epistrophe is the line "Why it wasn't me instead, It could've been me instead". This is an Epistrophe because it has the same endings repeated.I don't like the repeated verse the writter brought to this song when it says "Why it wasn't me instead, Could of been me instead" I think they could have come up with something better to start up the courus with a big bang and make the song more fast and fun.