The first poem I intend dealing with is, "A pink wool knitted dress." This poem is not written along conventional lines, e.g. sonnet or in stanzas of four lines. Indeed there are three lines in the first stanza while the fourth stanza could be a sonnet in itself as it consists of fourteen lines. All the other stanzas are of differing lengths as are the lengths of the lines.

As for rhyme in many of the poems I have previously read the last word in each line often rhymes with the last word in the next line or the second next line. This sort of rhyming occurs in Barrett Browning sonnet XLIII where the second and third lines rhyme and the first and fourth. This pattern continues throughout the poem. Hughes writes in sentences, some of which carry on into the next line, in fact the way in which it is written reminds me more of a piece of prose than a poem. It reminds me of the way Shakespeare writes in his plays, which is a form of blank verse; of course it could also be modern style free verse.

This poem is about Hughes' wedding day.

The last stanza seems to reflect the poet's notion that his bride is 'crazy' about him and simply cannot take her eyes off him. Nowhere in the poem does Hughes describe a similar intoxication for her. This poem is very much as Ted Hughes sees and portrays himself as a poet.

Look at it, touch it, smell it

"I love thee to the level of everyday's."

And the bride was wearing a "...pink wool knitted dress."

Repetition for effect and emphasis, she uses the words,

love whereas Barrett Browning is totally concentrated on the

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