The Farmer's Bride

• "too young maybe -"

  • confession
  • knows it is wrong
  • caesura shows him considering it but still ignoring
  • more sinister and wrong
• of love and me and all things human

  • polysyndetic
  • trauma
• like the shut of a winters day

  • simile
  • quickly becomes dark
• her smile went out

  • emotionally numb
• "frightened fay"

  • fricative
  • fear, stuttering unsettled sound
• "her wide brown stare"

  • waiting in fear and terror
• we chased her, flying like a hare

  • like prey
  • whole community
  • hunted
  • running as fast as she could
• all in a shiver and a scare

  • emphasises pace
  • fear
• birds and rabbits

  • linked with small prey
• the brown, the brown of her - her eyes, her hair, her hair

  • no rhyme at end
  • unclear ending
  • suspicious