Comparison of Spring In War Time and Lamentations

- The spring in war time refers to a woman who has lost her love (probably husband), where as Lamentations refers to a man who has lost his brother and feeling of love for his country.
-Lamentations has irregular rhyming, where as Spring in war time has an ABAB structure.
-Both refer to the loss of a loved one, although Lamentations is viewing the person grieveing, and Spring in war time is written from the point of view of the person grieving.
-The poem Lamentations uses 'blind darkness' to show death in a more brutal mood where as Spring in war time uses 'sprinkled blackhorn snow' which gives the poem a lighter tone.
-Spring in war time is very descrpitive of the setting where as Lamentations focuses on the description of the man grieving.
-spring in war time uses enjambment 'heart to sing.....of its nest' Lamentations also uses enjambment but not to perfect the rhyming pattern, but to variate the lines
-Lamentations uses the rule of three 'moaned, shouted, sobbed' for effect on the reader. Spring in war time does not use this.
-Spring in war time uses personification saying 'every bird has heart to sing' whereas Lamentations does not use this because its talking about a person already.

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