Winter: My Secret

Winter[A1] :[A2]  My Secret

I[A3]  tell my secret?[A4]  No indeed, not I:
Perhaps someday, who knows?
But not today; it froze, and blows, and snows[A5] ,
And you're too curious: fie![A6] 
You want to hear it? well:
Only, my[A7]  secret's mine, and I won't tell.

Or, after all, perhaps there's none:
Suppose there is no secret after all,
But only just my fun.
Today's a nipping day, a biting day;
In which one wants a shawl,
A veil, a cloak[A8] , and other wraps:
I cannot [A9] ope to everyone who taps,
And let the draughts come whistling thro' my hall;
Come bounding and surrounding me,
Come buffeting, astounding me[A10] ,
Nipping and clipping thro' my wraps and all.
I wear my mask for warmth[A11] : who ever shows
His nose to Russian snows
To be pecked at by every wind that blows?
You would not peck? I thank you for good will,
Believe[A12] , but leave that truth untested still.

Spring's and expansive time: yet I don't trust
March with its peck of dust,
Nor April with its rainbow-crowned brief showers,
Nor even May, whose flowers
One frost may wither thro' the sunless hours.

Perhaps[A13]  some languid summer day,
When drowsy birds sing less and less,
And golden fruit is ripening to excess,
If there's not too much sun nor too much cloud,
[A14] And the warm wind is neither still nor loud,
Perhaps my secret I may say,
Or you may guess.

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 [A1]Is she talking to winter? Is winter her secret?

 [A2]Ambiguous

 [A3]One-sided not dialogue so need other side

 [A4]Interaction, playful but she always has the last word

 [A5]Internal rhyme, assonance – Playful, jokey, light-hearted

 [A6]Playful reprimand

 [A7]Pronoun  - possessive

 [A8]Juxtaposition, list

 [A9]Can’t please evryone

 [A10]Parallelism, repetition, imperative, personification. Couplet – speeds up pace

 [A11]Declarative, figurative connotations - defensive

 [A12]Imperative – asking for trust

 [A13]Maybe tell you – offers hope

 [A14]Conditions have to be perfect