Song: Go and Catch a Falling Star General Themes Rhyme scheme and verse structure Womens inconstancy/dishonesty/falseness Rhyme

scheme ABABCCDDD, EFEFFFGGG, HIHIJJFFF Syllabic pattern 777788228 Regular and overabundant rhymw lyrical and childish Ironic for the bitter/cynical tone Complex Reflects complexities of women Stresses on first syllables emphasizes imperatives Duo-syllabic lines emphasizes certainty of claims and in third stanza, is dismissive of woman referred to

Stanza 1 Main argument Tone Donne sets the listener on a series of impossible tasks, culminating in what he believes to be the most impossible task of all to find honesty in society as those who are honest are not promoted. Confident and instructional o Use of imperatives: Go, Get with, Tell me, Teach me Cynical o Inversing the order of the tasks, beginning with what would conventionally be considered the most difficult, emphasizes his cynicism towards finding an honest woman. Magical and legendary Ironic and satiric to emphasise cynicism Evil/negative connotations Devils Foot, Mandrake root, Mermaids

Imagery

Stanza 2 Main argument Donne claims that even if bestowed with special powers and even if one travels around the world, he will never find and honest and beautiful woman. Suggests that one could find a true woman, if she is unattractive, hence any woman would be untrue if she could and this is the natural state of women. Confident o Use of imperative ride and use of wilt o Strident, monosyllabic final 3 lines emphasizes absolute certainty o Use of suspense: line broken off after wilt tell me, And swear, nowhere Cynical o Emphasized by paradox and impossibilities seeing invisibility o Sense of fruitlessness of hard work finding a woman through exaggeration will not find a true and fair woman despite travelling ten thousand days and nights, till white hairs on thee, and having seen strange wonders

Tone

Stanza 3 Main argument Donne claims that even if an honest and fair woman is seemingly found and even if she merely lives next door, she will still be unfaithful and dishonest by the time he meets her. This emphasizes the inconstancy of women

Tone

Confidence undermined and softened tone o Respectful/elevating words: Pilgrimage stands out amongst monosyllabic words Wishful o If thou findst one Cynical and poignant conclusion o Confidence building up again in Yet I do not, I would not go o Speed of becoming false implied as she lives only next door and time taken to cheat compared to time frame of writing a letter