Speaker or Narrator, and Point of View
-"The Psalm of Life"-The speaker of the poem is not named, he is addressing the reader or the listener of the poem.
-"The Village Blacksmith"-third person speaker of the poem
-"The Child Asleep"-The speaker of the poem is the mother with a first person point of view.
Form and Meter
"The Psalm of Life": trochaic meter, quatrain, abab
Metaphors and Similes
"Be not like dumb, driven cattle!"
-"The Psalm of Life"
"And the muscles of his brawney arms Are strong as iron bands."
-"The Village Blacksmith"
Alliteration and Assonance
"I watch to see thee, nourish thee"-repetition of (i:)
-"The Child Asleep"
"Whilst the wind, with sighing, wooes"-repetition of (w)
-"The Angler's Song"
Irony
N/A
Genre
lyric poetry
Setting
"Evangeline"-setting at the time of the Expulsion of the Acadians
Tone
"The Psalm of Life"-hopeful, thoughtful
Protagonist and Antagonist
"Evangeline"-Protagonist:Evangeline, Antagonist: British who separate Evangeline from her lover
Major Conflict
"The Psalm of Life"-Major conflict is the finality of death and the difficulty of finding meaning in life.
Climax
"Evangeline"-As an old woman Evangeline starts working as a nurse and discovers her lover among the injured, who then dies at her arms.
Foreshadowing
"Oh, when shall he, for whom I sigh in vain, Beside me watch to see thy waking smile?"
-"The Child Asleep"
-If the mother sighs for her child's father in vain, it means that he will never watch their baby.
Understatement
N/A
Allusions
"Dust thou art, to dust returnest"
"The Psalm of Life"-allusions to the Bible
Metonymy and Synecdoche
N/A
Personification
"The Bird and the Ship"-In this poem both the bird and the ship are personified and are having a conversation.
"Would you not say he slept on Death's cold arm?"
-"The Child Asleep"
Hyperbole
"And the muscles of his brawney arms
Are strong as iron bands."
-"The Village Blacksmith"
Onomatopoeia
"And the rustling reeds pipe loud."
-"The Angler's Song"
