LITTLE KNOWN FACTS ABOUT SCARLET VALENTINE POEM.

Enjambment: This system is current all over the poem. By way of example, these lines are enjambed: “I woke/ with his voice in my ear/ I sat up in bed.”The speaker offers an onion to be a Valentine’s gift, rejecting common romantic symbols like roses. The onion by itself is described metaphorically as a “moon wrapped in brown paper”The eve