Language and Structure for A Poison Tree - William Blake

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  • Form, Structure and Language
    • Form
      • It is written in quatrains.
        • The grouping of sets of four lines.
        • Simplest and most recognizable of poetic forms.
    • Structure
      • There are four stanzas.
      • Each stanza has a rhyming couplet.
        • Follows a rhyming pattern of AABB.
      • In the second two lines, he uses symmetry is used to show the speakers reaction to the events.
    • Language
      • Many of the words are monosyllables, except for the word 'angry' which is two and is repeated twice for emphasis.
      • 7 of the 12 lines begin with 'and' to build and increase intensity.
      • The lines in the first stanza all start with 'I' which emphasises that this is a personal story told from an individual point of view

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