World's wife by Kieran Long

Iambic pentameter

sass98 — 2014-09-23 18:19:18 UTC

5 stressed and 5 unstressed

sass98 — 2014-09-23 18:19:59 UTC

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

sass98 — 2014-09-23 18:26:55 UTC

sass98 — 2014-09-23 18:27:42 UTC

“First things first”

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

sass98 — 2014-09-23 18:29:47 UTC

sass98 — 2014-09-23 18:44:56 UTC

"One bite dead"

Short sentance for effect, childhood gone quick

sass98 — 2014-09-23 18:47:19 UTC

"virgin white of my grandmothers bones."

Age difference, innocence,takes advantage of word play

sass98 — 2014-09-23 18:48:57 UTC

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

Child brings you back, innocence, simple

sass98 — 2014-09-23 18:56:57 UTC

"murder clues. I lost both shoes"

The danger of the adult world and anything could go wrong

sass98 — 2014-09-23 18:58:21 UTC

"sweet sixteen,never been,babe"

Uses her (virginity and innocence)

sass98 — 2014-09-23 19:00:50 UTC

“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

sass98 — 2014-09-23 19:02:17 UTC

“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.

sass98 — 2014-09-23 19:02:54 UTC

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

sass98 — 2014-09-23 19:08:29 UTC