An Analysis of Adam's SongBob McKenty suggests in the poem "Adam's Song" that life is not a stationary event, it changes continuously and that to manage these changes the Humor serves as a good buffer tool. The tone of "Adam's Song" distinctly changes at least three times. McKenty uses rhythm, rhyme, and meter to express the essence of change in poetry and life. The first couplet of the poem is iambic tetrameter and expresses a sentimental, romantic and lyrical tone. The speaker of the poem at this point could be described as a perhaps young and naive lover. The author uses uniform meter, assonance and final rhyme with few surprises to declare the traditionally romantic and lyrical “love poem” style line of the first two lines “Come live with me and be my love. /Come frolic with me in the grove of Eden" " McKenty uses an irregular change of meter and internal rhyme in lines 3 and 4 to begin the emphasis on life's inevitable changes "With joy incessant, not shy/But unperturbed by nakedness..." In the second couplet the idealism of the first also two lines change to...