Before You Were Mine by Carol Ann Duffy

• ‘before you were mine’ - repetition x3 including the title, possessive pronoun
• ‘I’m ten years away…’ - adverbial of time
• ‘Your polkadot dress blows round your legs. Marilyn.’ - context
• ‘The fizzy, movie tomorrows…’ - metaphor
• ‘My loud possessive yell’ - adjectives
• ‘I remember my hands in those high-heeled red shoes, relics’ - time-shift, adjectives
• ‘stamping stars from the wrong pavement’ - alliteration, context
• ‘you sparkle and waltz and laugh’ - verbs, syndetic listing