Poem comparisons

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CV + You will be hearing from us shortly

you will be...

Voice - 2 voices vs 1 male voice

tone - both ironic / comic / sarcasm - bitter vs hopeful

structure - differ - more pauses vs free flowing set stanza similar to an actual CV

language - formal with enjambment - emphasis words and create an enigma vs colloquial

              - rhetorical questions / freudian slip

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Chimney sweeper + working

working

Similarities - pitiful tone / use of dark and light imagery / irony / hair being a metaphor for lose of innocence / hope is show in both - heaven and consern for the children

Differences - diction - social hierarchy vs apocalptical / voice - child vs outsider / phonology - colloquial vs gentle sounds / structure - regular ballad vs a deteriorated sonnet

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Toads + Money

tone - bitter 

form - ballad

imagery - zoomorphism vs personification

phonology - sibilance

                - consonance and italics in toads

diction - personal pronoun / symbiotic connection with money

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