Before You Were Mine by Carol Ann Duffy | Poetry Analysis | GCSE Love and Relationships

In this video, I give a detailed analysis of the poem 'Before You Were Mine' by Carol Ann Duffy, which is part of the GCSE Love and Relationship cluster.

(You can read the poem here: https://genius.com/Carol-ann-duffy-be...)

⭐️ LITERARY TECHNIQUES DISCUSSED IN THIS VIDEO:
Allusion
Assonance
Metonymy
Synecdoche
Ambiguity
Rhetorical questions
Juxtaposition
Onomatopoeia
Synaesthesia
Motif
Rhythm & metre (anapest, amphibrach, iamb, trochee, dactyl, Bacchus)
For more information on how to analyse rhythm in poetry, check out my blog post here: https://hyperbolit.com/2020/04/18/how...
For insights into different rhythmic units, check out these links:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/lear...
http://www.expansivepoetryonline.com/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_(p...)

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