15 poems

Structure and Language of Emigree

• First 2 stanzas are 8 lines, end one is 9 lines shows speaker can't forget the place
• No rhyme but rhythmic pattern reflects speakers positive mind but can become complex
• Free verse- emptiness of speaker but also her loyalty to her home
• No progression in the narrative to show that the narrator is stuck in the past
• First person account
• Volta
• enjambment
• epistrophe of the word 'sunlight'
• caesura
• extended metaphor of the city as lost childhood
• ellipsis
• temporal deixis
• motif
• personification of city as friend or lover
• simile
• synaesthesia confusing sight with taste
• aporia
• gustatory imagery
• plosive alliteration
• ambiguous language 'they'
• dysphemism

Theme and Context of Emigree

Structure and Language of Ozymandias

• similiar to a sonnet (14 lines)
• written in iambic pentameter
• first line-half down are narrator rest is the traveller
• irregular rhyme scheme
• single stanza (abab cdcd efef gg)
• combines petrarchan lines with shakespearean scheme
• Ozy = to breathe Mandias = to rule suggests power and control
• dramatic irony 'the desert outlives statue'
• plosive alliteration "cold command"
• allusion "king of kings"