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SONG, STRUCTURE - Coggle Diagram
SONG
And if thou wilt, remember (...) forget - Syntactic parallels suggest how speaker remains indifferent to the idea of death, however it offers the recipient a choice - insinuates that the adamant tone of speaker harbours an inward desire to be remembered
This implied choice which is established further humanises the speaker, tethering them closer to the physical emotion and existence of Earth and the natural imagery
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Ideas of the ideal Victorian Woman illustrated by the grief speaker portrays as a result of this separation
I shall not - leads on from the declarativity of when to offer the reader a confidence in the choice to be forgotten
Confidence is short lived through the anaphora, and the statement is opposingly presented as a mantra of comfort for the speaker themselves
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When - acceptance of the inevitability of death - sets up the instructive tone used throughout the poem
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Green grass (...) dewdrops - Uses natural imagery to evoke the systematic changes within spring, the cyclicity of the season implies how the physical absence on earth is unparalleled with the celestial immortality afterlife
Speaker consequently undermines their own importance to attempt to ease strong emotions for lover and themselves
Haply I may remember/And haply may forget - ambiguity of whether speaker will forget further supports idea of speaker's emotional confliction over whether they are O.K. with the idea of existence ceasing.
Further intimacy can be harvested between both syntactic parallels with subsequent parallels in meaning - both remembering and both forgetting
Roses - romantic connotations relinquished at her memorial demonstrate Rossetti's internal frustration to her lack of long-lasting companionship
Sing no - Sing on - speaker inverts the spelling to take back own word, and readily enforce their inability to accept the cyclical nature of life
STRUCTURE
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IAMBIC RHYTHM - primary rhythm, and instances where stressed on 'remember' to highlight the memorial theme