Speaker or Narrator, and Point of View
The speaker is woman, speaking in the first person singular.
Form and Meter
3 stanzas of 6 lines; the first 5 lines are iambic tetrameter, and the last line is iambic pentameter
Metaphors and Similes
"Fever in the blood" is a metaphor for strong physical attraction
Alliteration and Assonance
"'twixt two" is an example of alliteration because the "t" sound is repeated at the start of both syllables. "'Twixt" is a contracted form of "betwixt," which has one syllable too many to fit the meter.
Irony
The major irony in “On Her Loving Two Equally,” occurs when the speaker realizes the paradox of what it means to love two people equally. Although the speaker might be present with one lover, the other, no matter how close proximally, can never be loved equally at the same time. In some way then, the entire poem is an ironic musing on the impossibility of two equal instances of love.
Genre
Pastoral Lyric/Song
Setting
No time or place is specified
Tone
Confused/Troubled
Protagonist and Antagonist
The narrator is a protagonist, and Cupid (the author of her quandary) is an antagonist
Major Conflict
The major conflict is an exploration of whether it is possible to love two people equally.
Climax
The author demands that Cupid take back one of the darts of love, and so choose which suitor will no longer be loved. However, the speaker realizes that losing one of the lovers would amount to losing part of her identity, and here the poem leaves us.
Foreshadowing
Understatement
Allusions
There's an allusion to classical mythology in the reference to Cupid, who is said to shoot people with magical arrows, causing them to fall in love. The speaker blames her plight on the fact she's been shot twice.
Metonymy and Synecdoche
Personification
Love is personified as Cupid
