Poem

A BIRTHDAY
Christina Rossetti

My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in a water'd shoot;
My heart is like an apple-tree
Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit;
My heart is like a rainbow shell
That paddles in a halcyon sea;
My heart is gladder than all these,
Because my love is come to me.

Raise me a daïs of silk and down;
Hang it with vair and purple dyes;
Carve it in doves and pomegranates,
And peacocks with a hundred eyes;
Work it in gold and silver grapes,
In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys;
Because the birthday of my life
Is come, my love is come to me.



Analysis
The poem is composed of two stanzas and every stanza is composed of eight lines. The first and third line of first stanza is a run-on-line because there is no punctuation mark. Second line and 4th – 8th line, and each line of second stanza are an end-stopped line because it is ended by punctuation mark meaning that we have to stop a moment to take breath at the end of every line.

Task

Today’s Activities

I have writing class today at 06.30 am. It was so early for me, but I had to do it because I had chosen it as my writing class. It was the second meeting. I thought I was late attending class because of seeing the lecturer was already in the class. But after coming in class, I just several students there and class had not started yet. Some students came after my coming. They came later than I did. Two minutes later, class was started.