Now by robert browning (love as fulfilment, rapture in romantic love)

Question 1

“Out of your whole life give but a moment!”

Answer 1

• first line
• immediacy of the message
• exclamation of joy (!)
• Hyperbolic emphasises the range of emotions that the voice is feeling towards his lover

Question 2

Convoluted rhyme scheme (present but weird)

Answer 2

-disruption of internal rhymes (“moment and present”) this mirror the confusion and the fulfilment that is being felt
-defies usual sonnet form
alternate rhyme scheme om the middle
couplet at the end
crazy at start (2nd and 3rd line “before … ignore”)

Question 3

volta at line 10-11

Answer 3

doesn’t follow Shakespearean volta with octet-sestet volta

- this is because love is fulfilled

Question 4

“How long may such suspension linger?”

Answer 4

sibilance - mimics sound of sighing

• rhetorical question - voice is desperate for joy to continue
• pause at the volta

Question 5

“all to come after it-so you ignore”

Answer 5

• syntactical inversion (swapping words around) confusion

- thoughts skipping back and forwards not on one

Question 6

“You around me for once, you beneath me, above me”

Answer 6

-Asyndetic (lack of connective)
-tricolon “you.. me” imitates “above..below”
erotic image

Question 7

“That moment eternal-just that and no more”

Answer 7

• hyperbole of eternal –> not wanting anymore than eternity
• he can’t think rationally (sexual desires) “while cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut and lips meet” (last line)
• Caesura (used throughout) switches perspective

Question 8

“while cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut and lips meet!”

Answer 8

• intense concentration on erotic/ physical intention
• asyndeton (spill of sexual desires)
• exclamation mirrors first line –> little time has passed by (potential one night stand)
• rising tetracolon (emphasises triumph)