The rhyme scheme and enjambment suggests that the speaker is unstable
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form
Regular rhythm of the poem reflects his calmness.
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form
She has no voice in the poem- speaker projects his own thoughts and feelings onto her in life and in death
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structure
They mirror each others actions. her shoulder on him by herself and then he places her head on his shoulder when he kills her
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Language of possession
The speaker wants her to belong to him "forever", but he believes that her 'pride and vainer ties' are stopping her from being with him. He is desperate to possess her, and in death she becomes his object
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Language of love and violence
Speaker combines love and violence to reflect the troubled and destructive nature of his love- e.g"heart fit to break" and "burning kiss"
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What is the poem about?
madness, sin and passivity
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The rhyme scheme and enjambment suggests that the speaker is unstable
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