Before You Were Mine

Question 1

Language-Exciting and glamorous metaphors

Answer 1

‘Your polka-dot dress blows round your legs. Marilyn.’

Question 2

Structure

Answer 2

Time indicators are used at the start of each stanza ‘I’m ten years away’ ‘I’m not here yet.’

Question 3

Form

Answer 3

The poem is made up of four equal stanzas and this reflects the steady passage of time and inevitable changes.

Question 4

Theme-Nostalgia

Answer 4

‘I remember my hands in those high-heeled red shoes, relics,’