Songs for the people

• 'let me make the songs for the people.'- repetition of 'songs' all the way through, 'me' personal pronoun.
• 'songs for the old and young; songs to stir like a battle-cry.'- simile, doesn't want them to become violent wants to inspire. (throughout- first two lines end-stopping, whereas third and fourth line is enjambment.)
• 'not for the clashing of sabres'- onomatopoeia 'clashing', aural imagery of physical violence.
• 'for carnage nor for strife'- abstract nouns, outcome of physical violence- these songs are NOT meant to create violence.
• 'but songs to thrill the hearts of men.'- contrasts the lives of the oppressed with her vision of the future.
• 'amid life's fever and fret'- alliteration draws our attention to the suffering.
• 'till hearts shall relax their tension'- emotive language and contrast, listen to HER songs and relax.
• 'let me sing for little children, before their footsteps stray.'- made to stop young children going astray meant as a warning.
• 'sweet anthems of love and duty.'- abstract nouns, solutions she offers.
• 'to float o'er life's highway.'- metaphor journey of life will be so much easier. the verb 'float' sounds easy to do.
• 'where there shall be no night'- biblical allusion, comforting the elderly, metaphor- no danger.
• 'our world so worn and weary.'- alliteration, tired, emotive language.
• 'of sorrow, pain and wrong.'- list of three, shows the effects without her songs.
• 'soothe all its sorrow'- alliteration + sibilance, music is a soothing balm or medicine.
• 'hearts of men grow tender.'- emotive language, remove sorrow and remove crime... 'girdle the world with peace.'- ' the world has been 'girdled' (wrapped up in)/ hugged by peace. THIS IS THE FINAL LINE IT USES IMAGERY to show what the world could be like.