Form and Structure

• Written in blank verse and with lots of enjambment: this creates a conversational and anecdotal tone.
• We’ (first person plural) creates a sense of community, and ‘You’ (direct address) makes the reader feel immersed in the experience.
• The poem can split into three sections: Confidence: ‘We are prepared:’ (ironic) The violence of the storm: ‘It pummels your house’ Fear: ‘it is a huge nothing that we fear.’
• There is a turning point (a volta) in Line 14: ‘But no:’. This monosyllabic phrase, and the caesura, reflects the final calm before the storm.