"A Coat"

Rhyme: abbacdeedf

Meter: varies

Form/Stanzaic Structure: 11 lines, 1 stanza, meditative, monologue

Speaker: implied author

Audience: implied author

Tone: reflective, hostile

Diction: informal

Syntax: past tense

Sound Pattern:

Imagery: The mythological references in his poems are like embroidery covering a coat, they make it more beautiful and rich.

Symbolic Language: coat: poetry, embroidery: mythology, critics: thieves

Figurative Devices: metaphors

Theme: The author would have been better off not writing about myths, then the manner in which the critics twisted his intensions.

Argument: A writer should be allowed to own his work and what it stands off and not have others twist his intentions.

Rhetoric: reflection

Flaws: Turn between the fifth and sixth lines.

Summary: In starts with a reflective mood about how worked to make his poetry rich in meaning to have it misunderstood by those that read it. Begins with a praise of his work and ends with an attack on his actual audience compared to the imagined audience.