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Poem Structure This poem consists of 8 regular stanzas, each stanza being a quintet. Throughout the poem, no particular rhyme scheme is conveyed and the sentence length varies in each stanza. This poem is entirely constructed in 1st person narrative. Stanza 1 "I had grieved" - past tense - descriptive - suggests that sorrow was previously present however there is none now. Description of graveyard implies that this was a terrifying/chilling experience for her. "Married" implies that she had wed the person she had lost. Next line portrays that she must have got married on the day that her husband died if she had ripped her wedding clothes from her body. This stanza provides the reader with physicality by the use of the words "ripped", "howled", "shrieked", "clawed", "retched" etc. - onomatopoeic - portray a violent narrator. "howled", "clawed" - anthropomorphic. Repetition - "over and over", "dead, dead". - symbolise that she thought of...

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