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Analysing a whole poem

Task D - general observations:

The poem does not have line-initial capitals or punctuation. This is typical of McGough's poetry generally, and indeed of many 20th century poets. These orthographical features thus mark the era the poem comes from as post-19th century, and are unlikely to have much internal foregrounding significance because of their general prevalence in the text.

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