Language, form and structure

• Written in two stanzas to reflect two different confrontations – the birth, and a teenage argument
• Pause between the stanzas with end-stopped line suggests that time has passed – approximately 13 years.
• Name “Catrin” used at the start, but then not again. Perhaps this suggests it could be any mother/daughter
• Poem shifts from past to present tense, indicating that the tension between them will always exist