... experience: Death is portrayed as a genteel friend who "kindly" stops to take to her grave." Style : - 6 stanzas, 4-lines each - Traditional meter, often found in hymns and nursery rhymes - Iambic pentameter Analysis: Lines 1-2- Death is greatly personified in these lines. Figuratively, this woman has a "date with death." Death seems to be gentlemen that may be handsome and well groomed, who makes a call ... see many things that she has rarely noticed before: children playing, wheat growing, and "the setting sun." She might have taken life for granted. She notices children are playing" ...

• Word Count: 763
• Approx Pages: 3
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• Grade Level: High School