Speaker or Narrator, and Point of View
The action in the poem "If Cynthia Be a Queen" is told from the perspective of a third-person subjective point of view.
Form and Meter
The poem "His Pilgrimage" is written in an iambic pentameter form.
Metaphors and Similes
The term sleep is used in the poem "From Catullus V" as a metaphor for death.
Alliteration and Assonance
The lines "Sleep, after our short light,/ One everlasting night" in the poem "From Catullus V" contains an alliteration.
Irony
No ironic element can be found in the poems.
Genre
"If Cynthia Be a Queen" is a combination between a meditative and historical poem.
Setting
The poem "His Pilgrimage" has no setting because it is a meditative poem.
Tone
The tone used in the poem "Hymn" is a fearful one.
Protagonist and Antagonist
The protagonist in "Her Reply" is the young woman and the antagonist is the Shepard.
Major Conflict
The poem "Farewell To The Court" reaches its climax when the narrator leaves the court and the intrigues behind.
Climax
The poem "Her Reply" reaches its climax when one of the main characters dies.
Foreshadowing
At the beginning of the poem "Hymn", the narrator describes how the soul raises up to heaven. This is used to foreshadow the later description of those who died.
Understatement
We have an understatement in the poem "Farewell To The Court". In the beginning, the narrator describes the court as being the place everyone should be but then later claims that a court is a horrible place no one should want to go.
Allusions
The main allusion in the poem "Hymn" is that a person should only be interested in the afterlife and that they should not worry about their life on earth because it has no real value.
Metonymy and Synecdoche
The term mind is used in "If Cynthia Be a Queen" as a general term to make reference to a person's capability to form thoughts and to distinguish between the primitive animals and the intelligent humans.
Personification
We have a personification in the line "These pretty pleasures" in the poem "Her Reply".
Hyperbole
We have a hyperbole in the poem "Hymn" in the line "Thy time, when time's eternity is given,".
Onomatopoeia
We have an onomatopoeia in the line "GIVE me my scallop-shell of quiet," in the poem "His Pilgrimage".
