In this text I’m going to analyze the sonnet Anne Hathaway, written by Carol Ann Duffy.
In the first quatrain the speaking voice makes a metaphor comparing the bed to “a spinning world of forests, castles, torchlight, clifftops, seas where we would dive for pearls”. But in the third verse the speaking voice compares her lover’s words to shooting stars, and ends the comparison on the first line of the second quatrain, with an enjambment.                                                                                                                                              In the second quatrain the speaking voice makes a metaphor where she describes how she felt in that bed, comparing her body to “a softer rhyme to his, now echo, assonance” and after that comparing his touch to “a verb dancing in the centre of a noun”.
On the last line the speaking voice tells that some nights she “dreamed he’d written me” and begins another comparison between the bed and “a page between his writer’s hands”, that continues with an enjambment in the third quatrain.
In the third quatrain the speaking voice compares she and her husband’s loving to “romance and drama played by touch, by scent, by taste”.
On the last part of this quatrain the speaking voice tells about their guests, who are “dozed on” in their best bed, and are “dribbling their prose”.
The rhyming couplet begins in the last verse of the third quatrain, and tells about Anne’s current situation: she’s now a widow, who holds the memory of her love in “the casket of my widow’s head”. At the end of the sonnet there is a simile between Anne’s way to held the memory to the Anne’s way to held her in their second best bed. The sonnet is an evidence of the love between Anne and her husband, that isn’t a common kind of love, but it is passionate one, even if Shakespeare’s dead. This is proved by Anne’s memory, where his husband will be live forever.