been blessed by the genius the father provided for him, in the form of language.In Thomas' poem, "Fern Hill", the speaker is a male adult who is recalling his childhood and its unavoidable end. The poem is composed of six nine-line stanzas, that rhyme. The rhymes are direct rhymes, but the majority are slant rhymes. It is in the pattern abcddabcd. The lines have flexible accentual rhythm. Lines one, two, six, and seven have six accents each; lines three, four, eight, and nine have three accents; and line five has four accents.Thomas ties the poem together effectively with strong verbal formulas. The speaker or "I" is described as "young and easy," "green and carefree," "green and golden," and "green and dying." He also describes himself as happy in several different forms, such as when he is "happy as the grass was green." His enemy, time, has verbal formulas such as "Time let me hail and climb/ Golden in the heydays of his eyes" Thomas uses imagery, especially through colour. The colour is implied or explicit and portrays the colours of nature and things that grow. Green being the most widespread, with Gold as second. The colour images make the words on the paper come alive. ( The usage of green and gold so frequently is appropriate for a poem about childhood ripening into adulthood. )Thomas uses alliteration throughout the poem. For example, in the second stanza, "green and golden," the letter G, is the alliteration because it is used a number of times. Thomas also uses assonance, when he says "With the dew, come back, the cock on his shoulder" the O sound in come and cock is similar in both words.Throughout this poem, Thomas uses imagery, verbal formals, alliteration, and assonance, to transmit his ideas of childhood. It is of a boy's life in the Garden of Eden and is composed of repetitions of the cycles of nature. So to him, there seems to be no change in time; however from his adult point of view, time was toyin...
