Envy

• Poet

  Mary Lamb
• Like such a blind and senseless tree


  simile to compare envious people to the tree, personification
• it ne’er had seen its own red rose


  alliteration emphasises beauty of rose
• Had ever smelled its rose’s scent


  sensory language to show beauty of rose
• Or wished to change it’s natural bent


  rhyme stress, adjective shows beauty
• the violet blue, nor lily fair,

  Nor the sweet mignionet


  triplication, adjectives
• All envious persons are


  message in the final stanza
• Structure

  Rhythm like a nursery rhyme, which often contains a lesson. Regular structure and rhyme scheme emphasises control of poet and gives a calm, direct tone. Rose is seen as the most beautiful flower