Poetry Sounds

Sound is basically the musical characteristic of poetry. Through using methods of writing such as rhyme, enjambment, and caesurae you create sound in poetry. In the poem Out Out by Robert Frost the lines..
"His sister stood beside them in her apron

To tell them "Supper." At the word, the saw,        14

As if to prove saws knew what supper meant,

Leaped out at the boy's hand."

The period after the word "Supper" in Line 14 creates caesura, therefore adding a layor of melody onto the poem. In addition to creation of melody, the melody in itself and the rapidness of the words between the caesura add to the suspense of the poem before the climactic moment that the boys hand gets cut off.