The sixteenth-century English poet George Gascoigne draws various vivid images to represent the grieving speaker’s attitude on opening his broken heart to love. Within the poem, Gascoigne uses poetic devices such as form, diction, and imagery to effectively display the complexity of the agonizing attitude by explaining the reasons why the speaker can not face the woman he yearns for in the face.
“For that he looked not upon her”, follows the classic Shakespearean format with “ABAB” rhyme scheme, has iambic pentameter, and ends with a couplet that is meant to emphasize the speaker’s misery. In the first stanza the speaker’s heavy heart is expressed through the second line,”to see me hold my louring head so low.” The line describes his appearance
“For that he looked not upon her”, follows the classic Shakespearean format with “ABAB” rhyme scheme, has iambic pentameter, and ends with a couplet that is meant to emphasize the speaker’s misery. In the first stanza the speaker’s heavy heart is expressed through the second line,”to see me hold my louring head so low.” The line describes his appearance