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Similarities
- The poems are about living conditions being unstable but both are content with what they have
- Conversational tone
- Three stanzas
- Use of enjambment
- Quite recent poems
- Theme of living spaces
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Differences
- LS - unstable living conditions - the houses (poverty)
- CA - unstable living conditions - storm coming to the house
- CA - about one house/ area
- LS - about a much larger area - all of poverty in Pakistan
- CA - ten lines, three stanzas
- LS - three stanzas, ten lines, three lines and nine lines
- LS - irregular stanza length and pattern which reflects the theme and message of the poem
- LS - use of personification 'bright thin walls of faith'
- CA - about her love for her husband - dedicated this poem to him and her love for him
- LS - about poverty in Pakistan - hope and fragility of life 'miraculous'
- CA - theme of love 'it's embarrassing this happiness', 'I fill this stolen time with you'
- LS - theme of hope and fragility of life
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