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1
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written in

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1848

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published in

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1862

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rhythm

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iambic tetrameter

song-like rhythm

4
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addresses

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direct address - speaking to someone

this allows an emotional connection to form

5
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deals

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with the land of the living

6
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sibilance

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“sing no sad songs”

melancholy voice

7
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use of

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imperitaves

“sing” and “plant”

8
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love

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represented by “roses”

9
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rhyme scheme

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a
b
c
b

10
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cypress

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“shady cypress tree” planted in cemeteries

represents mourning

11
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buried

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“green grass above me”

Christian belief of life after death but doesn;t seem to suggest this here

12
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harsh rhymes

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of “wet” and “forget”

harsh reality of life

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memory

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“remember” and “forget” contrasted

blurring the distinction between memory and forgetfulness

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bird

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“nightingale” - associated with joy, nature and immortality

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acceptance of death

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shown by the metrical break in “sing on, as if in pain”

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idea of heaven

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“haply I may remember” - possible but not definite belief in heaven

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criticizing

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Rossetti is criticising the mourning rituals of death

the dead can’t hear or see - “I shall not see” “I shall not hear”

18
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victorian society

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had strict rules for mourning

due to Queen Victoria’s deep mourning for Albert

19
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1st stanza

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shows that women can be content without a man in their lives