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Whether Francis Thompson achieved it or not in "The Poppy," what does he seem to be aiming at?

                 SUMMER set lip to earth's bosom bare,
                 And left the flush'd print in a poppy there;
                Like a yawn of fire from the grass it came,
                And the fanning wind puff'd it to flapping flame.

                With burnt mouth red like a lion's it drank
                The blood of the sun as he slaughter'd sank,
                And dipp'd its cup in the purpurate shine
                When the eastern conduits ran with wine.
exact rhyme  consonance  metrical augmentation
slant, near, half rhyme euphony headless line
mosaic rhyme  onomatopoeia  catalexis
wrenched rhyme alliteration enjambment
masculine rhyme beat/ictus end-stopped
feminine rhyme implied offbeat anacrusis
multiple rhyme unrealized beat hypermetric syllable
vowel rhyme  tumbling verse diaeresis
monorhyme  sprung rhythm substitution
rhyme riche poetic contraction elision
internal rhyme synaeresis hemistich
assonance  syncope caesura