A revision video for Carol Ann Duffy's "Anne Hathaway", giving a line-by-line analysis of the poem. Especially relevant for the Scottish text section of SQA's National 5 and Higher English courses.
It doesn't occur in the poem, but she is listing literary techniques as metaphors for their lovemaking, so the feminine body being the "softer rhyme to his" can be interpreted as an allusion to feminine rhyme, (which is a literary device where the unstressed syllable rhymes, called feminine precisely because it is perceived as softer than rhyming the stressed syllables) which then fits into the list of literary devices along with echo, assonance, nouns and verbs. I hope that makes sense!
