raindrops

rainy day ~ no night for fireflies ~ tinged with silver light Lots going on, poetically , inside these three lines, even though I was totally unaware of any of this when I composed it. Took me all of two minutes, and 'happened' while I was busy taking the photograph, outside, in a rainstorm. None of these phrases were used before in any of my poems. They just sort of 'came' and the three lines fell into place without fuss. It was only much later, after I had made the haiga, that I noticed the features. I know that traditional haiku are supposed to shun these devices, but what is one to do when they appear unbidden? Seeing that I have foresworn the classic haiku format, I was quite chuffed with what my tired brain had gifted me.

Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences == Alliteration is the repeated sound of the first consonant in a series of multiple words rainy day ~ no night for fireflies ~ tinged with silver light assonance in: rainy/day; night/fire/flies/light; tinged/with/silver/ alliteration in no/night; for/fire/flies; full internal rhyme in: night/light

Written for a prompt at CarpeDiem