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Intro (Impact)
1. about ....
2. Purpose: ...
3. Creates sympathy for speaker by ...
  1. sense of never ending damaging cyclical path of relationship
    1. highlighted by ...
Imagery
1. connotations of .....
  1. through this, shows relationship ......
    1. "slow funerals have ploughed the rain"
      1. "funerals" ....
      2. "plough" .....
    2. "I wear a shroud of cold"
      1. "shroud" .....
    3. "grey fades to black"
      1. .....
      2. "grey" .....
      3. "black" ....
2. Start of poem heavy focus on ......
Undermining romantic symbols
1. "the stars begin their lies"
  1. "stars" - symbolic of .....
  2. undermined by ....
2. "Night clenches in its fist the moon, a stone."
  1. verb "clenches" and noun "fist" connotations of .....
  2. "moon" romantic, undermined by...
3. "..."
  1. ......
  2. ......
Form / Structure
1. in each tercet, middle line shorter, and contains one clause
  1. "has wept its leaves", "all my mistakes", "the sky is flayed"
  2. creates sudden and striking caesurae, representing .....
  3. Alternatively emphasises.......
2. Split into three parts
  1. First focuses on....
  2. Second on .....
  3. third on ......
Conclusion
1. end of poem shows .......
  1. reader told of a "hidden freight" which "shifts" the dynamic of attitude of writer
  2. Use of different tenses ......... shows .....
  3. final stanza filled with ..... sounds symbolising.....
  4. words from start of poem contrasted with words from end
    1. Eg.
    2. "love to pain" from pain to love as "winter thaws and melts"
      1. paralleling relationship to ...... through lexical choice
  5. Half Rhymes and Full rhymes represent .....

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