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Robert Burns - Song (Ae Fond Kiss) Explore: x5 Ae fond kiss, and then we sever! Ae fareweel, Alas, for ever! Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee, Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee. - |
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•Increasing desperation and urgency apparent in the alteration of this stanza from the first stanza; exclamatory punctuation in the end-stop as oppose to 'sever;' •sever and for ever rhyme is semantic field of romantic suffering •'Alas' interjection intensifies the mood of frustration / or telling of his resigned stance => parenthetic use of commas suggests stagnation (become inactive) of a broken heart • Does the cyclical structure show he hasn't progressed much emotionally?
• wage => to engage in, though has employment connotations of 'hire' => emotive onomatopoeic focus on final line |
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