The persona uses the rhyme scheme ABABCCCB, which is also used in The Garden of Proserpine by Algernon Charles Swinburne, and according to Wikipedia, through this pattern, the persona is “placing stress at the end of the poem where the three Cs rhyme and when Bs rhymes with the start…

Before the line by line analysis, we must keep in mind the following points: ‘I expected’, ‘I insisted’ and ‘I wanted’, phrases of this kind are used which constantly remind us of the persona’s individualistic eye, giving the idea she wants things to suit her wishes, but it seems as…

I can provide analyses of the following poems, kindly let me know which one would you want me to post next by leaving a comment below. Sonnet 19 — William Shakespeare Shirt — Robert Pinsky The Song of the Shirt — Thomas Hood On the Day of Judgement — Jonathan…

I Years had been from Home And now before the Door I dared not enter, lest a Face I never saw before Stare stolid into mine And ask my Business there – “My Business but a Life I left Was such remaining there?” The persona begins the stanza stating the…

A 4-day working week sounds unbelievably ideal. Less working time, more time to spend with loved ones, and overall that concept of being a “workaholic” is reduced drastically. This, I agree with. However, the negative repercussions of having 4 days of working seem to greatly outweigh the benefits. Working through…

I entered the territory of alienation when I turned fourteen. What might have triggered this, must have been the combined result of: 1. Watching movies where every individual needed to have a best friend to fill up a ‘void’ in their lives. 2. Reading awful stories written by lonely fourteen-year-olds…