I want to paraphrase this few line but i have no clue what it is. Please give me a hand because it is due tomorrow.



The odor from the flower is gone
Which like thy kisses breathed on me;
The color from the flower is flown
Which glowed of thee and only thee!

A shrivelled, lifeless, vacant form,
It lies on my abandoned breast;
And mocks the heart, which yet is warm,
With cold and silent rest.

I weep--my tears revive it not;
I sigh--it breathes no more on me:
Its mute and uncomplaining lot
Is such as mine should be.



"And mocks the heart, which yet is warm,
With cold and silent rest." < It laugh on my heart, which yet is warm(it mean it is not warm now, right?)With cold and silence rest(i have no more feeling, right?)


Its mute and uncomplaining lot (Is it talking about the his friendship is gone, so it wont complain or talk anymore?)

also, what is the last sent' mean?

Also, this poem is about his friendship or love with another lady?

Thank you very much

thank you very much for this detail paraphrase. Thank you very much

i want to ask. is this poem to memorize of his first wife or second wife?

I have not heard that it is in memory of either, but his second wife survived him, so it must be Harriet Westbrook, if either of them.

To me, this sounds like he's been dumped, rather than mourning a death.

pam

get some new question.

this one is a 4 line stanza? a sonnet?
is it rhyme?
it using metaphor. flower and the lady he love, isn't it?

and please, help me list more style character it is using. thank you. I am such a newbie of this thing.Pam Adams wrote:

A sonnet has 14 lines. This poem has 12, so it is not a sonnet. Each stanza rhymes abab (or all three stanzas are abab cdcd ebeb, if you prefer, but that is not an established form as far as I am aware). The meter is iambic tetrameter in the first stanza, but the last lines in the 2nd and 3rd stanzas are iambic trimeter. Why did he vary the meter in the last line(s)? For more punch, probably.

Since the odor from the flower is 'like' the kisses, it is labeled a simile instead of a metaphor. Later, the dead flower is a metaphor for the dead love, yes. A metaphor says that one thing IS another thing, and a simile says that one thing is LIKE another (in only a few respects).


The odor from the flower is gone
Which like thy kisses breathed on me;
The color from the flower is flown
Which glowed of thee and only thee!

A shrivelled, lifeless, vacant form,
It lies on my abandoned breast;
And mocks the heart, which yet is warm,
With cold and silent rest.

I weep--my tears revive it not;
I sigh--it breathes no more on me:
Its mute and uncomplaining lot
Is such as mine should be.


"Style character" I do not follow, sorry.