I. Intro
a) Thesis: The depressed tone and melancholy diction and the predictable rhyme scheme in the poem "The Voice" by Thomas Hardy cpntributes to the theme that you can never get back what you've lost.
II. Body
a) The author uses melancholy diction such as "listlessness", "wistfullness", and "faltering" to show that without this woman, he has been reduced to misery.
b) The rhetorical questions in this poem are examples of the false hope this man feels everytime something reminds him of his lost lover.
i] ex. "Can it be you I hear?"
c) The use of a perfect rhyme for every other line shows that the speaker's life has been reduced to complete predictability with no surprises or excitement now that his lover is gone.
III. Conclusion
a) In conclusion, the depressed tone and melancholy diction along with the predictable rhyme scheme contribute to the theme that you can never get back what you've lost in Thomas Hardy's poem, "The Voice".
