Speaker or Narrator, and Point of View
'The Moonlight's Dream,' is written from the first person narrative perspective.
Form and Meter
'Bearded Oaks,' is written in ten regular quatrains.
Metaphors and Similes
In the poem 'The Limited,' the simile 'Then slick as death the velvet pistons start, / Like fat blood in a drowning swimmer's heart,' is used.
Alliteration and Assonance
In the poem, 'Aspen Leaf In Windless World,' the first two lines, 'Watch how the aspen leaf, pale and windless, waggles, / While one white cloud loiters motionless over Wyoming,' use alliteration to describe the natural scene.
Irony
In 'Synonyms,' the line 'He has been waiting for something funny and disastrous,' refers to a magpie and is ironic because it plays on the old superstition that magpies can bring sorrow or joy etc. The magpie, in reality, knows nothing of these superstitions.
Genre
The poem 'Evening Hawk,' is an observational nature poem.
Setting
The poem 'The Garden,' is set 'On a fine day in early autumn,' and describes a garden.
Tone
The tone of the poem 'Terror,' is ominous.
Protagonist and Antagonist
The protagonist in 'Evening Hawk,' is the hawk itself, although the poem leaves room for the speaker to be present, observing the hawk.
Major Conflict
The conflict mentioned in the poem 'Terror' is seen in 'they fight old friends.'
Climax
The climax in the poem 'The Moonlight's Dream,' is the point in which the speaker exclaims 'At day-streak, in terror, I rose, ran through the tangle of clover.'
Foreshadowing
The opening line of 'Question and Answer,' is a question, 'What has availed / Or failed?' The negative tone and verbs foreshadow the following, melancholic answer.
Understatement
N/A
Allusions
In the poem 'Aspen Leaf In Windless World,' the poet refers to Biblical imagery, the story of Gideon, in 'What does dew on stretched woolfleece, the grass dry, mean?'
Metonymy and Synecdoche
In the poem 'The Moonlight's Dream,' the phrase 'all the house at rest,' represents the rest of the people in the house, i.e. the family.
Personification
The trees in 'Bearded Oaks,' are personified through the adjective 'bearded.'
Hyperbole
The line 'For all / Rehearse their own simplicity,' in the poem 'Question and Answer,' is hyperbole because it implies everyone and everything.
Onomatopoeia
The phrase 'whisper or creak,' in 'The Moonlight's Dream,' evokes the sound of the house as the family sleep.
