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Onomatopoeia is a word that imitates the source of a sound that the word describes. For example a clock makes a tick tock noise. Tick and tock are examples of onomatopoeia. Below are several examples of oomatopoeia within famous poems. Identify examples of onomatopoeia in poetry on your own. 2  Explain the purpose for the onomatopoeia and analyze how it contributes to the theme of the poem. 3  I have provided analysis with my examples to show you what I mean. 4  Write poems containing onomatopoeia.
Onomatopoeia in Literature . With a cluck-cluck here, And a cluck-cluck there . Here a cluck, there a cluck, Everywhere a cluck-cluck - Old Macdonald - Nursery Rhyme. Horsey horsey don't you stop. Just let your feet go clippetty clop. The tail goes swish and the wheels go round. Giddy up, we're homeward bound. - Nursery Rhyme. Few are vampires.