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O Sea Loved Thomas Hardy Inn Explore X5

Front Thomas Hardy - At an Inn
Explore: x5
O severing sea and land,
O laws of men,
Ere death, once let us stand
As we stood then!
Back •sibilance emphasises the divisions between them geographically (perhaps as a parallel to their emotional separation) between sea and land
•'O' interjection is declarative + hyperbolic lexis
•frustrated they never were + disappointment tone devoid of hope with persisting unreolved and harrowing feelings
•Ends in '!' reinforces his compelling and emotive message with a poignant sense of resignedness 
•Perhaps conclusion coincides with another Victorian era poet Tennyson "Better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all."
•polyptoton 'stand/stood' shows how he wants to bridge the gap between past and present & rekindle their love.

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