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Sting's Poem 'Wrapped Around Themselves'

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The poem, Wrapped around your fingers, is spoken in the first person’s point of view as the narrator, Sting, uses the words “I” and “We” quite fluently to convey her story. It also contains iambic pentamer. Looking at the first verse: You con|sider| me the| young app| rentice Caught be| tween the| Scylla| and Cha| ribdes Hypno| tized by| you if| I should| ling| er Staring| at the| ring a| round your| fing| er, each line has a set of ten, sets of stressed and unstressed syllables. The rhyming scheme is very evident as fluentuates throughout the poem with lines such as, Hypnotized by you if I should linger. Staring at the ring around your finger. Along with it’s rhyming schemes there’s a bit of alliteration tied up as well, Devil and the
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