 Studying The Farmer's Bride by Charlotte Mew Here's how you can analyse this poem The poem is written in six stanzas, however the stanzas are irregular The opening use of sibilance tells us that the farmer has been married to his bride for three years The farmer reflects that maybe his wife was too young and the Suzura shows that he's pausing to reflect on this Also this simile shows that the bride was really terrified of this marriage We can see she didn't want to be married because she ran away and the Suzura as well as the simile here shows that she's been likened to an animal The words mouse, birds and rabbits which belong to semantic field of nature show her innocence but also it shows she was too young for marriage The words shy, swift, straight and slight are all sibilant sounds and they describe her therefore these are adjectives showing just how young but also fearful she is These exclamatory sentences in the last verse show that the speaker is really sexually frustrated because his bride has not had sex with him, she's too young however we get the hint that he will force himself on her