Speaker or Narrator, and Point of View
Speaker: I , first-person point of view
Form and Meter
Sonnet
Metaphors and Similes
Metaphor: "To drift with every passion till my soul Is a stringed lute on which all winds can play," "Methinks my life is a twice-written scroll"
Alliteration and Assonance
Mine ancient wisdom, and austere control?
Irony
N/A
Genre
Love poetry
Setting
The mind of the speaker
Tone
Frustrated
Protagonist and Antagonist
Protagonist: Speaker, Antagonist: Love
Major Conflict
The frustration of the speaker's relationship with his loved one.
Climax
"I did but touch the honey of romance — And must I lose a soul's inheritance?" The end.
Foreshadowing
N/A
Understatement
N/A
Allusions
"Struck one clear chord to reach the ears of God: Is that time dead? lo! with a little rod" Allusions to the Bible.
Metonymy and Synecdoche
To drift with every passion till my soul Is a stringed lute on which all winds can play,
Personification
"all winds can play"
Hyperbole
Methinks my life is a twice-written scroll Scrawled over on some boyish holiday With idle songs for pipe and virelay,
Onomatopoeia
"Lo!"
