alliteration "dead, my dearest" "green grass"first person "I"sibilance "sing no sad sings"refrain "and if thou wilt, remember,/ and if thou wilt, forget." with irony= "haply I may remember,/ and haply I may forget."religious references "and dreaming through the twilight"-purgatoryiambic tetrametereven 2 stanza structure- remembering and forgetting are equally as important