Instructions: Analyze the text you selected and fill out the following worksheet in detail. Provide specific examples from the text that support your analysis.
1. Write the title of the text you have analyzed here:

When I was Fair and Young

2. List at least three examples of diction in the text that add to the overall tone. Explain how each word contributes to the emotional power of the piece.

spake

importune

mistriss

Each word contributes to this because it makes you think a little harder and makes you analyze the sentence more because you don’t hear these words often.

3. List at least three examples of imagery in the text that add to the overall tone. Explain how each description contributes to the emotional power of the piece.

fair and young

dainty dame

brave victorious boy

These also contribute because they describe a little more about something and it allows you to visualize it in your mind.

4. List the examples of important details the author chose to include. Explain how these details contribute to the emotional power of the piece.

I will so pluck your plumes as you shall say no more:

The author put this in this poem because he wanted it to make an impact and he wanted it to be very stern and very detailed because it will intrigue the reader.

5. Analyze the author’s use of syntax in this text. Are the sentences long or short? Does the author use punctuation to slow down the pace, or short phrases to quicken it?

The sentences are short and yes, the author does use punctuation to slow it down.

6. Explain how the sentence structure contributes to the emotional power of the piece.

The sentence structure helps this piece because it is a poem and it helps it because it is sort of like the speaker is right in front of you and keeps talking but saying different things.

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