Speaker or Narrator, and Point of View
The action in the poem "On The Death Of Mr. Robert Levet, A Practiser In Physic" is told from the perspective of a first-person subjective point of view.
Form and Meter
The poem "On The Death Of Stephen Grey, F.R.S." is written in an iambic pentameter.
Metaphors and Similes
In the poem "On The Death Of Mr. Robert Levet, A Practiser In Physic" the narrator compares death with a quiet night. This comparison has the purpose of transmitting the idea that for many, death is something they want and that they expect to gain tranquility in the afterlife.
Alliteration and Assonance
The lines "No more shall art thy dexterous hand require,/ To break the sleep of elemental fire" in the poem "On The Death Of Stephen Grey, F.R.S." contains an alliteration.
Irony
One of the main ironies in the poem "Part Of The Dialogue Between Hector And Andromache" is the idea that even though war creates a lot of pain and troubles many still decide to go to war and at times feel as if they have no other choice but to kill another person.
Genre
"On The Death Of Stephen Grey, F.R.S." is a meditative poem.
Setting
The action in the poem "One And Twenty" takes place on a field in a sunny spring day.
Tone
The tone used in the poem "On The Death Of Mr. Robert Levet, A Practiser In Physic" is a calm one.
Protagonist and Antagonist
The main protagonist in the poem "Song" is between the feeling of despair and the feeling of happiness.
Major Conflict
The major conflict in the poem "Part Of The Dialogue Between Hector And Andromache" is between the desire to go to war and the desire to have peace.
Climax
The poem "Parody Of A Translation From The Medea Of Euripides" reaches its climax when the narrator admits he wished his enemies would die.
Foreshadowing
In the first stanza of the poem "Spring" the narrator talks about the difference between winter and spring and how everything comes back to life once winter ends. This claim foreshadows the later description the narrator will give abut the vegetation.
Understatement
No understatement can be found.
Allusions
The main allusion in the poem "Stella In Mourning" is the idea that great literature is often born out of great misery and death.
Metonymy and Synecdoche
The term flower is used in the poem "One And Twenty" as a general term to make reference to the innocence which children have and which lasts only for a short period of time.
Personification
We have a personification in the line "deep research or happy guess" in the poem "On The Death Of Stephen Grey, F.R.S.".
Hyperbole
We have a hyperbole in the line "Yet still he fills affection's eye," in the poem "On The Death Of Mr. Robert Levet, A Practiser In Physic".
Onomatopoeia
We have an onomatopoeia in the line "can yield no room to music's soothing power" in the poem "Parody Of A Translation From The Medea Of Euripides".
