Speaker or Narrator, and Point of View
In the poem entitled "The Dog and his Master’’ the narrator combines a third person objective narrative with a subjective first person narrative to create a complex poem.
Form and Meter
The poems are written in iambic pentameter.
Metaphors and Similes
In the poem "To Death’’ the main character, death, is compared to a King to show the power he has over the people.
Alliteration and Assonance
No alliteration and assonance can be found.
Irony
In the poem entitled "To Death’’, death is presented as a King that everyone must obey. Thus, death is presented, ironically, as having power over men and everyone else as being powerless in front of him.
Genre
Most of the poems in the collection are odes or meditative poems.
Setting
Most of the poems do not have a clear setting.
Tone
The tone used in most of the poems is a cheerful and positive one.
Protagonist and Antagonist
In the poem ‘’The and his Master’’ the protagonist is the dog and the antagonists are the people who try to steal from the master.
Major Conflict
In the poem "The Dog and his Master’’ the major conflict is between the faithful dog and the people who want to steal from the dog’s master.
Climax
In the poem "Adam Posed’’, the poem reaches its climax when Adam sees Eve for the first time.
Foreshadowing
The way in which Eve will eventually convince Adam is sin is foreshadowed in the poem entitled "Adam Posed’’ where Eve is presented as a woman who has the power to influence Adam and to make him do what she wants.
Understatement
When in the poem "Adam Posed’’ the narrator claims that Adam had to clear thorns in his path is an understatement because the Bible claims that thorns and other unwanted vegetation only appeared after the primordial couple sinned against God.
Allusions
In the poem "Adam Posed’’ it is alluded that the woman the man encountered in the poem is actually Eve. The reason behind this is that the creature had no name and thus the man had no give a name to the "thing’’.
Metonymy and Synecdoche
In the poem entitled "The Dog and his Master’’ the dog is used here in a general term to probably make reference to the servants a master may have had inside his house.
Personification
In the poem "To Death’’ we have the personification "dying beds’’.
Hyperbole
N/A
Onomatopoeia
In the poem "The Dog and his Master’’ we have the line "No better dog (…) who spar’d nor Rich nor Poor;/ But gave the Alarm."
