Poem found here: "Valentine" by Tom Pickard With a short poem, techniques definitely stand out more, for example the alliteration of "s" in the first two stanzas: simplicity say sleep or shall we shower seductive, erotic, the alliteration of "s" adds onto the choices -- sleep or shower -- in a more playful way. And then the line, "have an apple" breaks away from that dream-like play. Just like a famous biblical apple that comes to mind. It's the break from the language and a move on to rhertoical questions of what happens next: you are as I need water shall I move? do you dream? Here the speaker acknowledges the dream like state that he's in. Here, when the speaker asks "shall I move?" the question is not where, but from what. And then the question "...
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