A song by Helen Maria Williams (love as despair, love as loss, doubts and fears of unrequited love)

Question 1

ABAB

Answer 1

-perfect structure imitates its song like feel

Question 2

Iambic tetrameter/trimester

Answer 2

• represents the monotony of the waves.
• represents regime of the navy
• shows constraints of emotion

Question 3

“While he the dangerous ocean braves”

Answer 3

• the beloved is in the navy

- poem is a lament

Question 4

“he gave me all his heart.”

Answer 4

• terminal caesura gives finite feel to most sentences in poem
• 3 enjambments in poem

Question 5

“the frugal meal, the lowly cot, if blest my love with thee!”

Answer 5

• voice saying she could be happy with his love and needs nothing more
• “frugal” sparing
• exclamation used to emphasise

Question 6

“Dangerous ocean” “billows roll” “breeze” “storm”

Answer 6

• psychogeography (pathetic fallacy) builds up emotions

- rough seas act as a metaphor for the rough relationship

Question 7

“Alas! at every breeze I weep- the storm is in my soul”

Answer 7

• initial caesura disrupts the flow
• used to emphasise the pain the voice is in.
• natural metaphor symbolises the navy and the affliction she is in