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... Seamus Heaney - Twice Shy Commentary Using nature to express picturesque images, Heaney portrays the purity of the unspoken terms of love in one of his love poems - "Twice Shy". The title of the poem "Twice Shy" seems to have been taken from the age-old proverb, "once bitten, twice shy", and we are, as a result, led to expect that the characters in this poem have had a bitter experience in the past, therefore they are treading carefully and attempting to recoup. There are five stanzas of 6 lines, most lines structured as single sentences which draw out tension and nervousness. The rhyme scheme is abcbdb - the rhythmic cadence emphasizes the speaker's as well as the characters' feelings and emotions. The theme of this poem is personal feelings - the conflict between needs of the flesh and teaching of society codes of behavior. The idea behind this poem is
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