Winter Swans

Question 1

Title

Answer 1

Wild suggests stormy challenges
Whilst in an eternal love (swans) unchanging love, heart, intimacy

This is all natural (swans)

Question 2

Language

Answer 2

Metaphor sim
‘Like boats righting in rough weather’ restoration in challenge link 2 title
The waterlogged earth/gulping for breath at our feet
As we moved on through afternoon light
Our hands… swum the distance between us
Like a pair of wings settling after flight

Question 3

Structure

Answer 3

Caesura
As we skirted the lake, silent and apart
Icebergs if white feather, paused before returning again
And folded, one over each other
End stopping
Like a pair of wings settling after flight. After enjambment at end of all other stanza

Question 4

Form

Answer 4

Tercets (3 line stanzas- not perfect couplets)
Each uneven n no rhyme scheme
Disjointed reflect separation
Final couplet signals reunite