The homework question asks to identify the title, main message, persona, poet, and rhyming words for five specific poems from "Daughters of Nature".

To answer these questions accurately, I need to read the poems from "Daughters of Nature." Since I do not have access to the text of "Song of the Rain," "Covid 19," "National Painkiller," "Sweet Mama," or "Naughty Pinky Ponky," I cannot provide specific answers for questions b) through j).

However, I can provide the titles for question a) and explain what each question asks for, so you can answer them once you read the poems.

For each of the five poems:

• a) What is the title of the poem?

  • 1. The title is Song of the Rain.
  • 2. The title is Covid 19.
  • 3. The title is National Painkiller.
  • 4. The title is Sweet Mama.
  • 5. The title is Naughty Pinky Ponky.

• b) What is the main message in the poem?

  • Identify the central theme or the primary idea the poet is trying to convey. What is the poem's core meaning or lesson?

• c) Who is the persona in the poem?

  • Determine who is speaking in the poem. Is it the poet, a character, an object, or an abstract idea? Describe their perspective.

• d) Who is the poet in the poem?

  • Find the name of the author of the poem. This information is usually provided with the poem or in the anthology's contents.

• e) Analyze all the rhyming words.

  • Identify words at the end of lines that have similar sounds. List these rhyming pairs or groups and describe the rhyme scheme (e.g., AABB, ABAB, ABCB).

• f) Describe the structure of each poem.

  • Explain how the poem is organized. Does it have a consistent number of lines per stanza? Is there a regular rhythm or meter? Is it free verse?

• g) To whom is the poem talking to?

  • Identify the audience or recipient of the poem's message. Is the speaker addressing a specific person, a group, an inanimate object, or themselves?

• h) How many stanzas are there in each poem?

  • Count the number of stanzas (groups of lines separated by a space) in each poem.

• i) How many lines are there in each stanza?

  • For each stanza you identified, count the number of lines it contains.

• j) Identify any style used in the poems.

  • Look for literary devices or poetic techniques such as metaphors, similes, personification, imagery, alliteration, symbolism, or irony. Provide examples from the poem and explain their effect.