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1
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The first line of the poem describes Isabella as an innocent and weak character. She comes across as the tragic victim.

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“Fair Isabel, poor simple Isabel!”

2
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There’s a build up for a tragic downfall and a sense that the idea of order is going to be disrupted. (dramatic irony)

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“With every morn their love grew tenderer, with every eve deeper and tender still;”

3
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Physical Description of Isabella - comes across as somewhat intimate and sexual on Lorenzo’s part.

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“But her full shape would all his seeing fill;”

4
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Shows the purity of Isabella. That she is still sweet and innocents.

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“Until sweet Isabella’s untouched cheek.”

5
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Narrators voice (sort of sarcastic) appears to mock the romance between these two characters. The narration brings the reader out of the story.

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Alas! When passion is both meek and wild!”

6
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Contrast in nouns. Shows that not everything is perfect in this poem.

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“A dreary night of love and misery,”

7
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The first time Isabella speaks, also shows how they don’t communicate their love to one another. Adding to the romance factor of this poem.

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“Lorenzo!’ - here she ceased her timid quest.”

8
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Lorenzo’s confession of love - could be considered his hamartia. So this is a turning point within the poem.

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“Believe how I love thee,”

9
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Development in character, he gains confidence when confessing love.

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“his erewhile timid lips grew bold,”

10
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Their romance is used as a metaphor for their love.

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“Grew, like a lusty flower, in June’s caress.”

11
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Romantic imagery and description.

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“The inward fragrance of each other’s heart.”

12
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Lorenzo and Isabella’s love blinds them and how reality is nothing to them only love matters.

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“Unknown of any, free from whispering tale.”

13
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Narrator breaks the story again, stopping us from getting attached to the characters.

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“Were they unhappy then? - it cannot be-“

14
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Narrator commenting and mocking past love poems.

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“Too many tears for lovers have been shed,”

15
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Foreshadowing of what is to come within the poem.

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“Know there is richest juice in poison-flowers.”

16
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Introduction of the brother who can be considered to be the Tragic Villains within the story.

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“With her two brothers this fair lady dwelt, enriched from ancestral merchandise.”

17
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Suggestion that the brothers are either attractive or intimidating.

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“And many once proud-quivering loins did melt.”

18
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They had a plan to use Isabella to gain more wealth and have personal gain, they also consider her as weak.

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“twas their plan to coax her by degrees to some high noble and his olive-trees.”

19
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The brothers want Lorenzo to pay, for ruining their plan.

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“To make the youngest for his crime atone;”

20
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Blunt sentence contrasts the flowering language that is consistent throughout the poem.

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“To kill Lorenzo, and there bury him.”

21
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Shows Lorenzo innocents and blindness towards the brothers plotting. Serpents have religions connotations of temptation.

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“Bowed a fair greeting to these serpents’ whine;”

22
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Description as Isabella being happy, represents the clam before the storm.

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“He saw her features bright.”

23
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Use of dramatic irony, the audience know that they are not going to see each other again.

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“I was in pain lest I should miss bid thee a good morrow:”

24
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Brother’s disgust at Lorenzo’s love.

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“sick and wan the brothers’ faces in the ford did seem.”

25
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The natural environment has a purpose. Has bad connotation within this stanza.

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“A forest quiet for the slaughter.”

26
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Lorenzo is reduced to a dead man and becomes possession of the two brothers.

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“So the two brother and their murdered man”

27
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Blunt description of what happened. It isn’t dragged out.

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“There was Lorenzo slain and buried in,”

28
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Isabella is considered weak, and has been manipulated.

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“Poor girl! put on thy stifling windows weed,”

29
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Another description of Isabella being perfect and pretty.

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“Spreading her perfect arms upon the air,”

30
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Narrator interrupts the story and the flow.

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“O misery!”

31
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Good imagery.

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“But selfishness, love’s cousin.”

32
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Idea of tragedy being put out there.

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“Came tragic - passion not to be subdued, and sorrow for her love in travels rude.”

33
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Separation of the world of love and the real world.

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“in torched mines and noisy factories”