Analyzing Thomas Lux's Poem 'A Little Tooth'
n reviewing the poem “A little tooth” written by Thomas Lux, I believe the enjambment or the effects that Lux chose to break the lines as he did was because he wanted his readers to understand the poem by the rhyme scheme, which it looks like as if that was in the begging of the poem. In our reading assignment, we learned that there are several different rhyme themes, but in the poem, Lux uses the beginning rhyme, which occurs in the beginning of a poem (Kirszner & Mandell, 2012). The first stanzas it says “your baby grows a tooth, then two four and five and then she wants some meat directly from the bone (Kirszner & Mandell, 2012). Lux is describing that their baby was a baby that is starting to grow up. At this point, the parents are seeing