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My father perceived
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Key images | St Francis, birds, sun cresting the chimney |
| Form | Three stanzas |
| Themes | Renewal, inevitability of ageing, holy in the everyday |
| Tone | Intimate, sense of awe, magical |
| Language | Colloquial language, metaphor, assonance, use of colour, line break, sibilance, rhetorical qs |
| Rhyme | Free verse |
| Style and syntax | Style is full of vitality syntax is descriptive ina dreamlike way memories are coming back to life and her father becomes eternal |