1. Title and author: "To My Dear and Loving Husband" by Anne Bradstreet
2. Topic: The love between a woman and her husband
3. Theme:
4. Mood: Uplifting
5. Poetic Devices (word selection and order):

A. rhyme: we, thee; man, can; gold, hold; quench, recompense; repay, pray; persevere, ever ; me, ye; way, repay; then, when; more, or; way, pray

B. alliteration: then, thee; while, we; love, let's; when, we

C. consonance: love, give; such, quench;

D. assonance: quench, recompense; love, live;

E. parallelism: "If ever two were one", " If ever man were loved", "If ever wife was happy"; "Love is such that rivers...", "Love is such I can no way...";

F. repetition: "If ever", "If ever", "If ever"; " Love is such", "Love is such"; "we live", "we live"

G. meter: no

H. number of stanzas: 6 in couplet style

6. Poetic devices (effects and images):

A. imagery: "whole mines of gold"; "all the riches"

B. personification: The East is personified when Bradstreet says "all the riches the East doth hold."

C. metaphor: none

D. simile: none

E. onomatopoeia: none

F. hyperbole: "I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold or all the riches the East doth hold"

G. understatement: none

H. oxymoron: none

I. paradox: "If ever two were one"; "That when we live no more, we may live ever"

J. irony: none

7. My favorite line: My favorite line was "I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold or all the riches the East doth hold." That line is my favorite because the author makes the love she has sound so strong and like nothing was good enough to take its place.