A Poison Tree

Hello everyone,

I am writing a paper on William Blake's A Poison Tree and I wanted to consult some of your guyses expertise. I ahve read through some of your topics in here while researching other papers and they have been quite helpful.

Here is the poem

A Poison Tree



I was angry with my friend:

I told my wrath, my wrath did end.

I was angry with my foe:

I told it not, my wrath did grow.

And I water'd it in fears,

Night & morning with my tears;

And I sunned it with smiles,

And with soft deceitful wiles.

And it grew both day and night,

Till it bore an apple bright;

And my foe beheld it shine,

And he knew that it was mine,

And into my garden stole

When the night had veil'd the pole:

In the morning glad I see

My foe outstretch'd beneath the tree.

The paper is a literary analysis paper (3-4 pages). I want to focus on 3-4 elements of figurative language and discuss how those elements are used by the auther (blake) to develop a specific theme. I need to also consider internal rhyme, meter, end rhyme, all other elements of figurative language.