Compare poems 'Those Winter Sundays' and 'When All the Others'

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Both of these poems are about a child's relationship with their parent. Most people will be able to relate to the poems as we have all shared a relationship with a parental figure at some point in our lives.

Both of these poems are sonnets. A sonnet is a poem that consists of fourteen lines. Each line is an iambic pentameter, this means there are ten syllables, five of which are stressed and the other five are unstressed. Generally there is a very strict rhyme scheme. There are usually very regular breaks in a sonnet, the most common- and the one used in this case- is after the eighth line. The first eight lines are called the octave; this is where the idea is stated. In both of these poems the octave is a statement about an incident in the relationship. The six lines at the end of a sonnet is called a sestet, which is where the idea is developed. The poets reflect on the events in the sestet.

The events in both poems take place in the morning. It is also likely that they both took place on a Sunday. In "When all