What is unusual about Kaufmans rimes? What will be an ideal ...

[HudsonKB16]

What is unusual about Kaufmans rimes?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

What do the hard ck sounds at the end of the poem resemble, and how does that fit with the poems theme and subject?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

[catron30]

Answer to Question 1

• He rimes the names of musical instruments with the names of gangsters. He also usually pairs proper nouns with common names. The rimes are bluntly emphasized, as in a jingle or slogan.

Answer to Question 2

• Both the sounds themselves and their steady, constant repetition suggest the ticking of a watch, echoing the speakers obsessive attention to the sound, with all that it suggests about her continual discontent and apparent longing for death.

[HudsonKB16]

Excellent

[debra928]

Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it