-Use of Zoomorphic imagery

-'Call out Call loud' is repetition and written with a demanding tone

-'Stumbles' 'Scuffles' 'mutters' assonance

-Lagarto phasing

-The message of the poem is growing up and losing innocence

-Use of pathetic fallacy

-Sibilance in the second line

-Compare to half past two with childhood

-The sun in the poem represents joy and happiness and towards the end of the poem when the sun goes away the contrast shows the sadness isolation he is feeling

-It is a narrative a poem

-Simple structure childlike

-Personification 'the darkening garden watches'

-one long stanza representing how life does not stop

-Use of portmanteau (compound words) to show that he doesn't understand