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1. Rhyme scheme - ababcdcd
2. Alliteration - The repetition of a consonant sound at the start of two
or more consecutive words is called alliteration. The instances of
alliteration are as follows -
„Spirit sealed‟, „rolled round‟

3. Enjambment - when a sentence continues into two or more lines
ending without any punctuation marks, it is called Enjambment. The

instances of enjambment are as follows –

“She seemed a thing that could not feel
The touch of earthly years.”

“Rolled round in earth‟s diurnal course
With rocks and stones and trees.”

Summary

This poem is about the death of a loved one and poet‟s feeling about his
beloved when he thinks about her death. This poem is a kind of elegy.

Her death put a great effect on him.

The poet says that her deep sleep has made his soul a seal. Her death
has made him so insensitive that he can‟t realize human fears.

Poem also describes his imagination about his beloved after death in
the second stanza. He seems to be immortalizing her death by saying
that she had no human concerns. Now earthly years were no longer a
matter of concern for her because they cannot make her older now.

But the poet also consoles himself with the thought that she has

become a permanent part of nature. In the last two lines the poet
describes that she is now under the surface of the earth revolving
along with it. She moves in this cosmos as the earth does on its axis in
a daily routine. She is moving with the rocks, stones and trees all the
time.

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Poem and Explanation