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Content

• Speaker laments the fact that not even sunrise will wake his comrade up
  • Before, the man was a hard worker, rose with the sun

Style

• Too precious
• Very complex “rhyme” scheme where letters rather than sounds are positioned as rhymes
  • sown, snow, now, know
  • star, stir, tall, toil, all
• “Oh what made fatuous sunbeans toil / To break earth’s sleep at all”
  • This poem is liable to Yeats’ critique