Remembrance

Slow, sobre and regular

Hymnal

Feels like an outpouring of emotions

Varies - mirrors poet's emotions

First - questioning and doubtful

Then - loving, tender, fond, and passsionate

Ultimate tone - determined, certainty, courage, stoicism, strength of will and purpose

First half - hard, harsh words - 'cold' 'sever' 'suffereing'

Second half - softer hymn like - 'bliss' 'rapturous'

Repetition - 'cold' 'severed' 'hopes' 'bliss' - emphasises the effect of death

Presonification of time as an unstopable wave

Personification of despair

Oxymorons - 'rapturous pain' 'divinest anguish' - the joy and pain of memory

Dramatic use of punctuation - ? ! - to show th strength of the poet's feelings

Separation and loss

Love

Getting over the death of a loved one

Remembrance and moving on

Despair

A lyrical, elegy or lament

Eight 4 lined verses

Moves from self-dout over her faithfullness to her dead husband

To new resolve to carry on without him