Song and Virtue
1. The speaker is a man who is trying date a woman, whom he calls rose.
2. Go and tell the wasteful girl that she seemed sweet and fair. Tell her shes young and (something). Looks arent worth much, but she trys hard to be desired. Everything dies, they don’t live long but are sweet and fair.
3. The rhyme scheme for the poem is ababb. Lines 1 and 3 are shorter then the other lines, half, to be exact. Each stanza is one sentance.
1. Day is compared to earth and sky in the first metaphor. In the personification, the rose is described as being extremely bright, to the point of tears. These are alike in the fact that both of these deal with the use of light.
2. The poems rhyme scheme is ababcbcbdbdbdede. The ending lpart to the sentaces or stanzas are all revolving death and dying exept for the last.
Filed by tittle at March 19th, 2008 under Uncategorized
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