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"I grew to love the lifestyle not the life."

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“We met as students, shacked up, split
up, made up, hitched up….”

The fast pace use of short sentences and
the language here reflects the fast pace of the lives Mrs Faust and
her husband shared.

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“I keep Faust’s secret still- the
clever, cunning, callous bastard didn’t have a soul to sell.”

The revelation is that in fact Faust had no soul to sell, and so
effectively tricked the devil into granting him power

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"sweet sixteen,never been,babe"

Uses her (virginity and innocence)

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"murder clues. I lost both shoes"

The danger of the adult world and anything could go wrong

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"i come with my flowers, singing, all alone "

Child brings you back, innocence, simple

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"virgin white of my grandmothers bones."

Age difference, innocence,takes advantage of word play

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"One bite dead"

Short sentance for effect, childhood gone quick

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“First things first”

The first line of the poem is an
excellent example of the conversational tone that Carol Ann Duffy has
adopted.

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"BA.MA.Ph.D. No kids."

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5 stressed and 5 unstressed