Speaker or Narrator, and Point of View
The action in the poem "Love And War" is told from the perspective of a third-person objective point of view.
Form and Meter
The poem "On Fidelity" is written in palindrome form.
Metaphors and Similes
The narrator compares love to war in the poem "Love And War". This comparison has the purpose of transmitting the idea that while love can bring happiness and joy, it can also be the source of unimaginable pain.
Alliteration and Assonance
We find alliteration in the lines "In summer's heat and mid-time of the day,/ To rest my limbs upon a bed I lay," in the poem "In Summer's Heat".
Irony
One common ironic idea which can be found in almost all of the poems in the collection is the idea that while love can cause a lot of pain, people will continue to pursue it no matter the consequences they have to suffer.
Genre
Meditative poems on love.
Setting
The action in the poem "In Summer's Heat" takes place during the summer in the narrator's room.
Tone
The tone used in the poems is a neutral one.
Protagonist and Antagonist
In most of the poems the protagonist is the narrator and the antagonist is the unfaithful lover.
Major Conflict
The major conflict in "Magic" is between reality and perception.
Climax
The poem "In Summer's Kiss" reaches its climax when the lover kisses the narrator.
Foreshadowing
The title of the poem "Disappointment" foreshadows that way in which the narrator will talk about the woman in the poem in a negative way.
Understatement
In the poem "On Fidelity" the narrator claims in the first line he did not expect his lover to remain faithful to him. This is, however, an understatement because the narrator later admits he was pained to find out his lover cheated on him.
Allusions
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Metonymy and Synecdoche
The term "prayer" is used in the poem "Disappointment" as a general term to make reference to the carnal desires the woman had towards the narrator.
Personification
We find a personification in "Disappointment" in the line "greedy kisses".
Hyperbole
We have a hyperbole in the line "cross the glowering mountains, the rivers swollen with storm" in the poem "Love and War".
Onomatopoeia
We have onomatopoeia in the line "screaming from the hills" in the poem "Magic".