You digging on my grave by Thomas Hardy

ORAL SKILLS

      Ah, Are you digging on my grave? 

      “Ah, are you digging on my grave,

      My loved one? - planting rue?”

      “No ; yesterday ‘he went  to wed ‘

      One of the brightest wealth has bred.

      ‘It cannot hurt her now,” he said,

      “That I should not be true.

        

      “Then who is digging on my grave?

      My nearest dearest kin?”

      “Ah, no: they sit and think, ‘what us!

      What good will planting flowers produce?

      No tendance of her mound can loose

      Her spirit from Deaths gin;”

ANALYSIS

The rhyme scheme of this poem is:

aabcccb   adeeed – irregular rhyme scheme

If I was preparing to perform this poem in front of my class I would ensure that I:

-        Read the poem to myself to understand it.

-        recite it in front of a mirror

-        Ask my classmates to observe as I rehearse my performance.

-        Decide on the intonation I would use at what point.

-        Decide on when and where to use gestures.

 “Ah, are you digging on my grave,” Line 2 stanza 1 should be said in a rising intonation because it is a yes/no question

Instances of Alliteration in this poetry:

It cannot hurt her now,” he said,   /h/

“No; yesterday ‘he went to wed ‘/w/