Speaker or Narrator, and Point of View
The speaker is a recently widowed woman, looking out at her backyard in spring.
Form and Meter
The poem is written in free verse.
Metaphors and Similes
N/A
Alliteration and Assonance
Alliteration is present in the F sounds of "flames as it has flamed."
Irony
N/A
Genre
Nature poetry, elegy
Setting
The speaker's backyard in springtime
Tone
Mournful and elegiac
Protagonist and Antagonist
The protagonist is the speaker and the antagonist is her grief.
Major Conflict
The speaker is unable to enjoy the beauty of springtime because she is overwhelmed by grief and memories of her late husband.
Climax
The climax of the poem occurs when the speaker imagines collapsing into the white flowers and marshland in a meadow.
Foreshadowing
The first line ("Sorrow is my own yard") foreshadows that the poem will be dealing with loss and grieving.
Understatement
N/A
Allusions
N/A
Metonymy and Synecdoche
N/A
Personification
N/A
Hyperbole
N/A
Onomatopoeia
N/A
