Poem analysis.

Poem analysis.

POEM

The deathly child is very gay,

He walks in the sunshine but no shadow falls his way.

He has come to warn us that one must go who would rather stay

Oh deathly child

With a hear of woe

And a smile on your face,

Who is it that must go?

He walks down the avenue, the trees

Have leaves that are silver when they are turned upon the breeze

He is more pale than the silver leaves more pale that these

He walks delicately,

He has a delicate tread.

Why look, he leaves no mark at all

Where the dust is spread

Over the café tables the talk is going to and fro

An the people smile and they frown, but they do not know

That the deathly child walks. Ah who is it that must go?

I think that this poem is about the angel of death who is here to take

the soul of a person. The first text gives us a brief outline of the

poem. From the second to the fourth text we find a description of the

deathly child and the last text gives the perception of the public as

from the deathly child's own perspective. The deathly child decides

whose soul to take as he passes the people.

The language of the text has an interesting rhythm effect which has

some underlying regularity mixed with variation. In the first, middle

and last text, the last word in each stanza all rhyme, however the

last word in the second and fourth stanza rhymes.which appears to look

like this: -

1st text all rhymes

2nd text 2nd and 4th stanza rhymes

3rd text all rhymes

4th text 2nd and 4th stanza rhymes

5th text all rhymes

I have also noticed that when looking at the poem, these rhythmic

words have only one-word syllables, when pronounced they are stressed.

The first, third and fifth texts have...

... middle of paper ...

...e leaves no mark at all

where the dust is spread". I think that the writer writes in this

particular way, because the writer is describing the deathly child as

something different from the humans. If someone does not have a

shadow, it means that they do not have a soul. When it says "he leaves

not mark at all where the dust is spread" is shows that the deathly

child cannot be seen.

Graphology: all lines begin with a capital letter because to give

relations between speech and writing. And there are no two sentences

within the same line, except the last stanza, which not only has a

capital at the beginning of the line but also in the next sentence. I

have also noticed that all the stanzas in the middle text begin with

the letter "h" and the first letters in the first and second texts are

also represented in the third and fifth text but in different order.