Speaker or Narrator, and Point of View
The poem "An Answer To A Love-Letter, In Verse" is told from the perspective of a first person subjective point of view.
Form and Meter
The poem "Answer" is written in an iambic pentameter form.
Metaphors and Similes
In the poem "An Elegy On Mrs. Thompson", the narrator compares time with the wind, a comparison which appears in the 5th line of the poem. This comparison is used by the narrator to set the mood for the poem and also to make the reader aware of just how fragile life really is and how quickly it can end without any warning signs an without any notice.
Alliteration and Assonance
We have an alliteration in the lines "Hope, the wretch's only blessing,/ May in time procure me more" in the poem "Answer".
Irony
The poem "Epilogue To Mary Queen Of Scots" contains an ironic element which the narrator presents from the beginning of the poem. The ironic element is the idea that the main character, despite being extremely wealthy and holding a position of power, she is more unhappy than the rest of the people who live in appealing conditions.
Understatement: The nymph described in the first line of the poem "Epistle From Arthur Grey, The Footman, To Mrs. Murray, After His Condemnation For Attempting To Comm" is presented as an extremely beautiful and lovely creature. This is however an understatement as towards the end of the poem the narrator describes the nymph in extremely violent and in negative terms.
Genre
The poem "Between your Sheets" is a love poem through which the narrator expresses her feelings concerning her lover.
Setting
The action in the poem "Continuation" takes place inside the narrator's bedroom.
Tone
The tone used in the poem "An Epistle From Pope To Lord Bolingbroke" is a religious and positive one when the narrator talks about God and an accusatory one when the narrator describes humanity.
Protagonist and Antagonist
The protagonist in "Epithalamium" is the white man who has no racist ideas and who wants to marry a black woman and the antagonist is the racist society in which the main character lives.
Major Conflict
The main conflict in "Epistle To Lord Hervey On The King's Birthday From The Country" is between the King and his court and the common people.
Climax
The poem "Ballad, On A Late Occurrence" reaches its climax when the puppy is helped by a kind person and is no longer suffering.
Foreshadowing
The negative way in which women are portrayed in the poem "Epistle From Mrs. Yonge To Her Husband" is foreshadowed by the first line of the poem in which women are accused of always coming up with "vain pretense".
Understatement
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Allusions
In the poem "An Epistle To The Earl Of Burlington", the narrator addresses a man who holds a high position within a prestigious religious order. Through this poem, the narrator criticizes the ma because he is not in fact someone who believed in God but rather a person who sees religion as a quick way to make profit. Through this description the narrator also alludes the idea that no every priest and religious leader necessarily believes in what they preach and that it is possible they do not have any faith at all.
Metonymy and Synecdoche
The term "fruit" in "Answered, For Lord William Hamilton" is a term used by the narrator to make reference to sexual desire. By claiming the fruit which easily falls from the tree has no value the narrator implies a person must resit the sexual advantages made by others and to wait for the right moment.
Personification
We have a personification in the line "the short invaluable hour" in the poem "Conclusion Of A Letter To A Friend".
Hyperbole
The lines "that devil charm'd my mind, /To reason deaf, to observation blind" from the poem "An Answer To A Love-Letter, In Verse" contains a hyperbole.
Onomatopoeia
We have onomatopoeia in the line "The tender sound does every nerve inflame" in the poem "Between your Sheets".
