An Analysis of Adam’s Song Essay -- Adam’s Song

An Analysis of Adams form Bob McKenty suggests in the poem Adams Song that life is not a stationary event, it is forever changing and that in order to handle those changes learning ability serves as a good buffer. The tone of Adams Song changes distinctly at least three times. McKenty uses rhythm, rhyme, and meter to express the essence of change in the poem and in life. The first base couplet of the poem is iambic tetrameter and expresses a sentimental, romantic and lyrical tone. The speaker in the poem at this apex could be described as a possibly young and honest lover. The author uses the uniformed meter, assonance and ending rhyme with few surprises to accommodate the traditionally romantic and lyrical love poem style measure of the first two lines Come live with me and be my love./Come run around with me in Edens grove. McKenty uses an irregular change in meter and internal rhyme in lines 3 and 4 to begin the emphasis on the inevitable changes of life In unabated joy , not shy/ barely unabashed by nudity... In the second couplet the idealism of the first two lines also changes to...