In the poem "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne the speaker of the poem is talking to his lover to tell her that although he is leaving their love will not be effected. It surprised me when I read the poem because I thought from the title that somebody died and this poem is to make him feel better. However the speaker describes the love between him and his lover, and there still something bad is happening to mourn and that is his departure and their separation. Thus the poetic line, the meter and the sound are all connected to the idea of parting and making the lover fell better about it.

The poem consists of short lines and that makes it flow smoothly with a rhyme at the ending. Also the shortness of the line makes the simple words that was used to stand out and be emphasized more to give the idea desired by the speaker, such as 'pass', 'souls', 'sad' and 'go' in the first stanza.

There is a sad tone in the poem that describes souls passing away, and tears being shed for a couple that were so much in love. Their love could not be measured because it was not only simple love with hands, lips and eyes only;

There are some exceptions to the tetra-meter in the poem in certain lines where it was missing one syllable especially in the beginning when he narrator said " As virtuous men pass mildly away, / And Whisper to their souls to go," (1-2) he was talking about some people leaving and I understood as a bad tone like dieing, and the missing syllapul symbolizes that somebody is leaving.

The enjambment makes the poem harder to read, and it shows the complexity of the thought, which is shown in the idea that the speaker is mentioning because it is hard for him to think of leaving and leave his lover behind. That makes him uncomfortable, and the same thing the poem is doing to the reader, it makes him uncomfortable with what's going on but as he goes on every thing clears.

The meter of the poem is another thing that helps it flow too. Since it is a tetra-meter Trochaic Foot, it goes with a quick, fast pace so his soul mate forgets that he is going away and to understand faster that even if he goes away they still connected and their love would last. Also the Trochaic foot has a less serious tone, which was intended by the speaker to make the idea of his departure sounds less troubling to his lover.

The same idea is shown in the enjambment, which is a lot in the whole poem, to show that the couple are still con

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