when we two parted

• "half broken-hearted"
• "pale grew thy cheek and cold"
• "thy vows are all broken"
• "in secret we met- in silence i greive"
• what is the poems strcture?

  cyclical- although there is juxtoposition between tenses, theres no change in his feelings
• 5 themes of the poem?

  grief, loyalty, resentment, memory, despair
• what is the rhyme scheme?

  alternate rhyme- empathsises speakers pain and fusrtration
• what is the context?

  lord bryon was frequently known to be in public scandals, this poem is thought to be about one of his public affairs with lady frances webster
• what was byrons intentions

  exspress his sorrow at the loss of a relationship