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Winter Swans
- Alliteration- 'which we walked'
- Assonance- 'sand' 'hands'
- Consonance- 'righting in rough'
- End-stopping- 'after flight.'
- Enjambment- 'distance between us/and folded'
- First person- 'I noticed our hands'
- Free verse- No rhyme scheme
- Imagery- 'icebergs of white feathers'
- Internal rhyme- 'shingle and sand'
- Monosyllable- 'which we walked'
- Pathetic fallacy- 'two days of rain then a break'
- Sibilance- 'wings settling'
- Simile- 'as if rolling weights'
- Volta- 'They mate for life'
Eden Rock
- Alliteration- 'same suit'
- Ambiguity- 'where the stream-path is!'
- Assonance- 'three' 'feet' 'see'
- Caesura- 'over the drifted stream. My father spins'
- Colloquial- 'I had not thought that it would be like this'
- Consonance- 'The drifted stream'
- Direct address- 'as you might think'
- End-stopping- 'like this!'
- Enjambment- 'Leisurely,/ they beckon to me'
- First person- 'I hear them call'
- Free verse- No rhyme scheme
- Imagery- 'trembling at his feet'
- Internal rhyme- 'has spread the stiff white cloth over the grass'
- Metaphor- 'where the stream path is'
- Monosyllable- 'takes on the light'
- Pathetic fallacy- 'the sky whitens as if lit by three suns'
- Sibilance- 'slowly sets out'
- Similes- lots through out
- Third person- 'her straw hat'
Climbing My Grandfather
- Caesura- 'warm ice. On his arm'
- Colloquial- 'watching clouds'
- Consonance- 'knowing/the slow'
- End-stopping- 'good heart.'
- Enjambment- 'I change/direction'
- First person- 'I decide to do it'
- Free verse- No rhyme scheme
- Imagery- 'clouds and birds circle'
- Internal rhyme- 'pushing into the weave, trying'
- Juxtaposition- 'slowly open and close'
- Metaphor- extended metaphor about the mountain
- Monosyllable- 'slow'
- Onomatopoeia- 'cracked'
- Oxymoron- 'warm ice'
- Simile- 'smooth and thick/like warm ice'
- Third person- 'his heat'
Mother, Any Distance
- Alliteration- 'single span'
- Assonance- 'floors' 'doors'
- Caesura- 'years between us. Anchor. Kite'
- Direct address- ' you at the zero-end'
- End- stopping- 'to fall or fly.'
- Enjambment- 'unreeling/years between us'
- First person- 'I space-walk'
- Half rhyme- 'fall or fly'
- Imagery- 'endless sky'
- Juxtaposition- 'fall or fly'
- Metaphor- Metaphor for him growing up. Extended metaphor- tape measure
- Monosyllable- 'to fall or fly'
- Rhyme scheme- Not regular
- Simile- 'dance/like that'
- Sibilance- 'single span'
Neutral Tones
- Alliteration- 'leaves lay'
- Ambiguity- 'They had fallen from an ash' -love has died
- Assonance- 'God' 'sod'
- Colloquial- 'we stood by a pond that winter day'
- Direct address- 'your mouth'
- End-stopping- 'on which lost more by our love'
- Enjambment- 'the deadest thing/ alive enough'
- First person- 'shaped to me'
- Half-rhyme- 'leaves lay'
- Imagery- 'the sun was white'
- Internal rhyme- 'and wrings with wongs'
- Juxtaposition- 'alive enough to have strength to die'
- Metaphor- Oxymoronic metaphor
- Monosyllable- 'we stood by a pond'-slows the pace
- Pathetic fallacy- 'they had fallen from an ash'
- Rhyme scheme- Regular through out
- Simile- 'swept thereby/ like an ominous bird'
- Sibilance- 'staring sod'
Singh Song
- Alliteration- 'silver stool'
- Colloquial- 'she effing at my mum'
- Direct address- 'your lemons are limes'
- End-stopping- 'come to baby?'
- Enjambment- 'Indian shop/on di whole'
- First person- 'I do di lock'
- Free verse- No rhyme scheme
- Imagery- 'tummy ov a teddy'
- Internal rhyme- 'vee hav made luv'
- Monosyllable- ' I do di lock'
- Rhetorical question- 'How much does that come to baby?'
- Sibilance- 'silver stool'
- Simile- 'luv/like see rowing through putney'
- Third person- 'she effing'
- Phonetic spelling- 'ver yoo bin' 'di' 'dis'
Letters From Yorkshire
- Alliteration- 'planting potatoes' -repatative
- Ambiguity- 'his knuckles singing'
- Caesura- 'clearing a path through snow. still it's you' -shifts the focus
- Colloquial- 'you out there in the cold'
- Consonance- 'planting potatoes'
- Direct address- 'you out there in the cold'
- End-stopping- 'across the icy miles.'
- Enjambment- 'still it's you/who sends me word'
- Enjambment- 'seeing the seasons/ turning' - changing of season
- First person- 'me with my heatful'
- Free verse- No rhyme scheme
- Imagery- 'blank screen'
- Juxtaposition- juxtaposing the two peoples relationship
- Metaphor- 'pouring air and light into an envelope'
- Monosyllable- still, it's you who sends me word' -reflecting simple life
- Rhetorical question- 'because you dig and sow?'
- Third person- 'his garden'
Sonnet 29
- Ambiguity- 'O my plan-tree'
- Assonance- 'thee' 'tree' 'see'
- Caesura- 'who art dearer better!'
- Consonance- 'think of thee! My thoughts do twine'
- Direct address- 'I am too near thee.'
- Enjambment- 'be it understood/ i will not have my thoughts'
- First person- 'I' 'thy'
- Imagery- 'as a strong tree'
- Internal rhyme- 'About thee as wild vines, about a tree'
- Metaphor- the whole poem is an extended metaphor
- Monosyllable- 'I think of thee!
- Onomatopoeia- 'Rustle"
- Pathetic Fallacy- 'my thoughts do twine and bud'
- Rhyme scheme- throughout
- Sibilance- 'Rustle thy boughs and set thy trunk'
- Volta- 'renew thy presence'
Before You Were Mine
- Alliteration- 'cha cha cha'
- Caesura- 'for the last one. You reckon its worth it'
- Colloquial- 'with your pals'
- Consonance- 'at the pavement'
- Direct address- 'you laugh on'
- End-stopping- 'before you were mine.'
- Enjambment- 'holding/ each other'
- First person- 'Remember my hands'
- Free verse- No rhyme scheme
- Imagery- 'under the tree'
- Juxtaposition- juxtaposing me and you
- Monosyllable- 'the three of you'
- Onomatopoeia- 'clatters'
- Pathetic fallacy- 'Anchor. Kite.'
- Rhetorical question- 'whose small bites on your neck, sweetheart?'
- Sibilance- 'stamping stars'
Follower
- Alliteration- 'sail strung'
- Ambiguity- 'shoulders globed'
- Assonance- 'narrowed and angled at the ground'
- Caesura- 'yapping always. But today'
- Consonance- 'full sail strung'
- End-stopping- 'not go away.'
- Enjambment- 'single pluck/of reins'
- Free verse- No rhyme scheme
- Imagery- 'my father who keeps stumbling'
- Metaphor- 'shoulders globed' Extended metaphor about a ship
- Monosyllables- though out
- Onomatopoeia- 'plod' 'clicking'
- Sibilance- 'sail strung'
- Third person- 'his broad shadow'
Walking Away
- Ambiguity- 'Go drifting away'
- Assonance- 'day' 'play'
- Caesura-'at my mind still. Perhaps it is roughly'
- Colloquial-'you walkaway from me towards the school'
- Conosonance-'football then, like a satellite'
- Direct address-'you walking away'
- End-stopping- 'letting go.'
- Enjambment- Lots of enjambment 'go drifting away/behind a scatter of boys'
- Half-rhyme- 'give and take'
- First Person- 'I never quite grasp to convey'
- Imagery- 'A sunny day with leaves just turning'
- Juxtaposition- 'you walking away from me towards'
- Metaphor- 'Wrenched from its orbit go drifting away'
- Monosyllable- 'and love is proved'
- Pathetic fallacy- 'a half-fledged thing set free'
- Rhyme scheme- A,B,A,C,A
- Simile- 'your first game of football, then, like a satellite'
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