Victor

The story is told through ...

1. The poem is written in the form of a ballad, written in Quatrain
2. It has a A,B,C,B rhyming scheme
3. The poem could be written like a cautionary tale
4. The poem is written in chronological order, liner.
5. Use of dates and months
6. Omniscient narrator
7. change in voices
8. Change in pace as the poem progresses
9. Biblical references - Jezebel (women who cheated on her husband and was fed to dogs) foreshadowing Anna's fate
10. Anna is introduced straight after Jezebel
11. There are multiple changes in settings throughout the poem.
12. Line 93 he refers to someone called "father" - which father? His dad or god?
13. Auden personifies the wind, river and tree's - They give Victor advice on killing Anna
14. Ace of Spades - represents bad fortune, foreshadows her fate
15. Alpha and Omega = first and last letters in the Greek alphabet, represent Jesus and God