Key Quotes

Cards (2)

  • 'The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing'
    The narrator uses juxtapostion (a smile being'the deadest thing') to show the incompatibility of the lovers.
  • 'Keen lessons that love deceives/ And wring with wrong, have shaped me/ Your face'
    Alliteration in 'wring with wrong' and assonance in the line 'keen lessons that love deceives' creates a bitter sneering tone, reflecting the narrator's bitterness towards his past relationship.