What are Years versus The Emperor or Ice Cream

I almost think I like the traditional "How do you feel about..." questions because I had a really hard time coming up with comparisons between the "sound elements" of these two pieces of work. I chose What Are Years? by Moore because I noticed a obvious sound pattern while reading it. "what is our innocence, what is our guilt?"- She already starts with repetition. "All are naked, none is safe"- all and none are opposites but the repetitious feeling is still present. "dumbly calling, deafly listening"- the "d" sound is repeated here, flowing the poem right along. "stirs the soul to be strong"- I should knwo the technical name for multiple words starting with the same consonant... asonance maybe? Regardless, that is what it going on here. "He sees deep...who accedes"- all these words have the same middle sound which also gives the feeling of pushing the reader right along through the poem. The ending sounds of each word from the last two lines of each stanza are also very similar. "others and stirs" have the same general ending sound, as do "surrendering and continuing" as well as "mortality and eternity". I really liked the sound elements that exist in this poem. I felt like I was being bumped along through the poem and I had no difficulty noticing various sounds throughout the poem.

The Emperor of Ice Cream had similar sound elements through it. "bid him whip" all have the same middle sound and "kitchen cups concupiscent curds" all have that hard "c" or"k" sound. This poem, similar to What are Years kept me rolling along, mostly through the first stanza. "Let be be finale of seem" has the same middle "ee" sound to it. Similar to What are Years, the ending sounds of the last words of the last 2 lines in each stanza are similar. "seem" and "cream" obviously rhyme as do "beam" and "cream". "Dresser of the deal" both start with the hard "d" sound. In the second stanza of this poem, I started to lose the sense of sound elements which was not the case in What are years. Both authors tend to use a repetitious sound, either in the beginning, middle or end of certain words and both give the reader the effect of being guided through the poem in a faster pace that most other poems.