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The Lammas Hireling - Coggle Diagram

- - - - magical creature
      - "leather horns"
        
        hare ears
  - - - simile
        
        turning into a hare
      - concealed, hidden away
      - returning to real form
    - - end-stopping line
        
        statement
      - simile
      - spirit leaving him
- - - - nightmare
      - foreboding death of the hireling
      - "Disturbed"
        
        hireling's death will disturb the persona
  - - - onomatopoeia
      - bag being empty
      - "Splash."
        
        minor sentence
        
        dramatises event
    - - making gold bullets
        
        contrast to beginning
      - doesn't sleep
        
        worried that he's haunted
        
        feeling guilty
- - - - religious
      - praying for forgiveness
      - regretting killing the hireling
    - - continuously confessing
      - desperation
      - hoping to cure the curse
- - - - "I grew fond of company / That knew when to shut up."
        
        liked the hireling when he listened
        
        valuable
        
        doesn't save him from death
      - "After the fair, I'd still a light heart"
        
        storytelling
        
        initially unaffected
        
        contrast to end of the poem
    - - "To go into the hare gets you muckle sorrow,"
        
        "muckle sorrow"
        
        much upset
        
        talking to external voice
        
        avoiding details
        
        lessen his guilt
      - "I levelled / And blew the small hour through his heart"
        
        slow when killing him
        
        shot him