In the first stanza of “Early Morning Feed” Redgrove shows that he loves the child very much by using verbs such ar “darts” which showes his usgency and “listen” which shows how conshouse he is of the baby’e welfare. Then redgrove uses personificaition. He uses the kettle as a person for the man to interact with. I believe the use of “humming” is to say the kettle is waiting for him.
In the next stanza redgrove tells us of how the man “tiptoe” so the baby doe not know he is watching after him. The man even sais. “he mustn’t think he has me springing to his beck and call” although this is true that he is at the baby’s “beck and call”. In this stanza redgrove uses his first simile “the cool dawn raising like the moon.” He also returned to describe the kettle as rattling. He uses this personificaition to show that the kettle is getting irritated.
In the third stanza redgrove uses a lot of verbs
“springing”
“stroke”
“smiles”
“sidles”
“pourse”
He uses these to show how urgent the father is. He also uses a metaphor here to say he is moving fast “gallop” and uses a simile “light as a violin”.
In the fourth stanza Redgrove tells us that the baby has settled and he is going to sleep.
In the next staza Redgrove tells us of him considering going to his chair to think about the babe. He then reches the table and drinks his tea to find it cold. Although he was trying to keep concern on the tea and not the babe it is the tea that is cold. He then returnes to bed and is still looking for and danger to the babe.
“BY-LOW” begins differently to “Early Morning Feed” because the mother is soothing the babe instead of ignoring it.she goes on to say how the baby crying makes her sad:
“it grieves me sore to se thee weep.”
She also expressis her sadness by saying she is double sad:
“thy mourning makes my sorrow sad.”
The stanza ends by introducing the fathers situation and how the mother is annoyed with him. She sais how he charmed her but he was false and now has no feelings for her o’r the baby.
In the third stanza the mother sais the baby shop so he is happy, but then she goes on to say how she hopes he doesn’t grow up llike his father but realises there similarity’s and fears he will.
In the final stanza the woman changes here attitude towards the father and sais she will always love him nomatter what he does. Throuout the poem there is a is a consistent rhyme and “by-low, lie low.” at the end of every stanza.