English: Before you were mine

• Speaker ‘mourning’ the end of a relationship. Uses typical melancholy imagery to portray her feelings. Used tool of time to further emphasise the draining feelings of a breakup. Only optimism is at the thought of time being reversed.
• ”the clocks slid…


  …back and hour and stole light from my life”
• “Wrong part…


  …of town”
• “And, of course…


  …unmendable rain”
• “Heart


  knaw”
• “Sky could…


  …lift more than one hour”
• ”words I would…


  …never have said nor have heard you say“
• “Beyond all light. …


  …these are the shortened days and endless nights”
• How does the use of enhancement reflect speaker?

  varied throughout poem, underpins state of emotional uncertainty and rawness of narrator