One Autumn Night
by: Herbert Bashford
Daniel Belton, Liz flora, Lequince Walker
One Autumn Night
Description
Daniel: It is like a wedding on the the beach between passionate lovers.
Liz: This poem is about two people in love on the beach watching the moon on an autumn night.
Lequince: It is a sonnet about two lovers getting married on a lovely autumn night at the beach.
Tone
The authors feelings toward the topic is warm and loving. He is exited more and more as he talks about this romance. This beach love story is like the description of someones perfect love fantasy. The author was very descriptive about that.
Figurative Language
~A great star shook, and in its burning breast, As in my own, a red heart beat and beat./ simile
~And watched the moon, all drenched with holy light, Sail slowly up, and toss a veil of white / Personification
~And watched the moon, all drenched with holy light, Sail slowly up, and toss a veil of white / Personification
Rhyme Scheme
Night: A
I: B
Sky: B
Light: A
White: A
By: B
Try: B
Sight: A
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Love: A
Guessed: B
Heat: C
Above: A
Breast: B
Beat: C
Theme statement
The theme of this story is that love is very joyous and painful.
"So full of joyous pain"