the destruction of sennacherib

• written by lord byron
• he had a fascination with supernatural
• poem is about assyrian king sennacher leads his army to attack jerusalem , they felt unstopable untill an angel appears
• the poem has lots of anaphora of the word "and" , symbolising the fast past of edvents
• it has a AABB rhyme scheme
• "angel of death"
• "melted like snow"
• tells reader religion has power over humans and nature
• compares to the man he killed and belfast confetti