First Love

I knew it had to come. I couldn't bear

it then; can't take it now. I'll make amends. ¹

I'm willing to agree, now. So – be fair,

There's no need to split up. We'll just be

friends. ¹

Like you suggested. Not see quite so much

of each other. Please! I agree. You're right. ²

I made too much of what we had. Been such

a fool. I'll take the blame. We'll start tonight ²

-The New Improved Regime. We'll both be

free

to do just as we want – the adult way. ³

I'll do just as you want me to. You'll see.

I'm willing to do anything you say. ³

I promise. I won't make a scene. Won't cry.

If you'll do just one thing. Don't say goodbye.

This poem includes Rhymes at ( 1,2 and 3)

The poem is an allegory because the characters, the setting and the events are abstract and a
concept

Metaphor

Euphemism

Hyperbole

Paradox

Repetitions
Spared

‘That Love is all there is,

Is all we know of Love...’

– Emily Dickinson

It wasn’t you, it wasn’t me,

Up there, two thousand feet above

A New York street. We’re safe and free,

A little while, to live and love,

Imagining what might have been –

The phone call from the blazing tower,

A last farewell on the machine,

While someone sleeps another hour,

Or worse, perhaps, to say goodbye

And listen to each other’s pain,

Send helpless love across the sky,

Knowing we’ll never meet again,

Or jump together, hand in hand,

To certain death. Spared all of this

For now, how well I understand

That love is all, is all there is.

Allusion

Metaphor

Irony