Example of Ellipsis in Poems

The ellipsis in poems It is the way to construct sentences in an unusual way and their objective is to make the poem take a certain form or construction that suits the author.

The ellipsis in poems consists of the suppression of words that are grammatically necessary but that use them does not favor the idea that the poet has to express his ideas, or to save space in writing and adapt the poem to the construction that the author wants achieve; however, the meaning of the sentence is clear and the absent word or words are understood, and their writing is unnecessary.

Example of ellipsis in poems:

Beautiful girl with golden hair.

The sentence above written completely can look like:

The girl is beautiful and her hair is golden.

The words La, is, and has hers, color are omitted, however the sentence is understood.

Another example of ellipsis in poems We can see it in the following paragraph:

I saw her sitting by the river bank

Her impassive face, her lost gaze, and her smile,

Her smile, oh how not to notice it!

She was frank, sincere, and so beautiful that it lit up her face.

The deleted words are I, I saw and her smile. The complete sentences remain:

I saw her sitting on the river bank,

I saw her impassive face, I saw her lost gaze and I saw her smile,

Her smile, oh how not to notice it!

Her smile was frank, sincere, and so beautiful that it lit up her face.

Another example of ellipsis in poems is the following:

The dark, warm night set by the sound of cicadas

She witnessed our meeting, subtle and passionate.

That night the full moon with her light illuminated us,

But the clouds, accomplices of our love

They hid it to leave us in the shadows, without witnesses.

The previous paragraph without ellipsis is:

The night was dark, warm and acclimated by the sound of cicadas

The night witnessed our meeting, which was subtle and passionate

That night the full moon with her light illuminated us

But the clouds were accomplices of our love

The clouds hid the Moon to leave us in the gloom, without there being witnesses.