Phonetics and phonology - The sounds of poetry
Sound patterns in poetry
Here are two extracts from the poem Digging by Seamus Heaney. In the poem, a son talks openly about his perceived failures in following in his father's footsteps, namely because of his lack of skill with a spade and as a farmer.
Read them out loud:
Under my window, a clean rasping sound
When the spade sinks into gravelly ground:
My father, digging. I look down
