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  1. The poem "Mad Girl's Love song" is a villanelle (A villanelle is a French poetry form of five three-line stanzas and a closing quatrain. The first and third lines of the first stanza alternately repeat in the subsequent stanzas.) It includes 19 lines, divided into five tercets (three-line stanzas),Read more

    The poem “Mad Girl’s Love song” is a villanelle (A villanelle is a French poetry form of five three-line stanzas and a closing quatrain. The first and third lines of the first stanza alternately repeat in the subsequent stanzas.) It includes 19 lines, divided into five tercets (three-line stanzas), with the final stanza being a quatrain,  Each of the tercets in “Mad Girl’s Love Song” follows the rhyme scheme ‘aba’, while the last quatrain switches to rhyme scheme ‘abaa’.

     

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  1. 1. Personification- E.g. The stars go waltzing out in blue and red. 2. Alliteration- Using a repeated sound at the start of several words that are grouped together is the literary device known as alliteration. E.g. drops,” and “dead”, “lift,” and “lids”, “drops,” and “dead”, “bewitched,” and “bed”,Read more

    1. Personification– E.g. The stars go waltzing out in blue and red.

    2. Alliteration– Using a repeated sound at the start of several words that are grouped together is the literary device known as alliteration. E.g. drops,” and “dead”, “lift,” and “lids”, “drops,” and “dead”, “bewitched,” and “bed”, “sung,” “me,” and “moon,” “struck,” “fires,” and “fade”, “seraphim,” and “Satan’s”, “drops,” “dead”, “drops,” “dead”.

     

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  1. The poem's speaker is a "mad" or mentally disturbed female, according to the title, which also reveals that she is singing an odd "love song." This girl is devastated on being abandoned. Then comes mental illness, insanity, love, betrayal, and heartache. The "mad girl" explores the troubles she hasRead more

    The poem’s speaker is a “mad” or mentally disturbed female, according to the title, which also reveals that she is singing an odd “love song.” This girl is devastated on being abandoned. Then comes mental illness, insanity, love, betrayal, and heartache. The “mad girl” explores the troubles she has managing her life and how her mental instability contributes to these difficulties.

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