Speaker or Narrator, and Point of View
The speaker of the poem: lover about to go on a journey and leave loved one behind
Point of view: first pers
Form and Meter
Three nine line stanzas, ABBACCDDD ryhme scheme
Metaphors and Similes
There are plenty of metaphors in the poem: tears are compared to coins, to globes; love is compared to heaven etc.on
Alliteration and Assonance
"For thy face coins them, and thy stamp they bear"-Line 3
repetition of /ð/
Irony
"Whoe'er sighs most is cruellest, and hastes the other's death"-line 27
Sighing is usually seen as an act of love and longing, but in this example it is something that causes harm to the recipient.
Genre
lyric poetry
Setting
Two lovers standing together in a tearful embrace of farewell.
Tone
depressed
Protagonist and Antagonist
Protagonist: two lovers; Antagonist: circumstances that force them to separate.
Major Conflict
The speaker of the poem has to take a journey to a different shore and leave his lover behind.
Climax
The speaker of the poem asks of his lover to not weep too much for him, since it may only bring more unnecessary pain.
Foreshadowing
"So thou and I are nothing then, when on a diverse shore."-Line 9
The speaker foreshadows that the love will die once they are separated.
Understatement
N/A
Allusions
N/A
Metonymy and Synecdoche
Earth-a round ball, globe
Personification
"To teach the sea what it may do too soon"-Line 22
Hyperbole
Tears are exaggeratedly compared to coins, to globes; love is heaven; grief is death etc.
Onomatopoeia
N/A
