Slave dealer

• Type and structure 


  Type:

  -Ballad

  -Tells a story:Narrative

  -each stanza has 3 sets of rhyming couplets

  -Rhythm:songlike quality

  structure:

  -The poem has 8 stanzas with 6 lines.

  -ABABAB/CDCDCD/...

  -Written in Iambic Pentameter

  -written in 3rd person view
• 1. From ocean's wave and Wanderer came,

  -Alliterattion of w

  -The slave dealer is a travveler of oceans.wanderer is someone that travels aimless but he does not travel aimlessly but trades in slaves through selling or buying them.there is nothing aimless about his activitys

  -Metaphor-"Wanderer"The slave dealer is compared to a Wanderer to emphasise the extreme loss that the he feels. -Wandere is also written in capital letters to show that it is a name.The name is given to the slave dealer.