Tone Shifts: shifts for every stanza, positive tones in stanzas about anyone and noone's love, and negative critical tones about in stanzas about the society. Trigger for tone shift - when seasons are listed - positive, but when elements and heavenly bodies are listed - negative (less orderly)

Repetition: to show the effects of time. " spring summer autumn winter,"(3) and " sun moon stars rain," (8) are repeated to show the passage of time. In repeating these lines he changes the order of the seasons or celestial images, "autumn winter spring summer," (11) and "stars rain sun moon," (21). This shows that the times are changing but so are the people

Diction: "pretty," (1), connotates superficiality of town, "little and small"(5), not refering to physical size but their capacity and willingness to take risks and be different. "did their dance" (18) symbolizes marraige and the rituality of it and how it is traditional and not always for love. "busy" (27) used to describe the people burying anyone, enforces the idea that nothing changes the routine lives of society.

Metaphor: "Anyone," (1) is a metaphor for any one man in the world that chooses to be different, and the entire poem is an extended metaphor for life in a society resistant to change.

Syntax: "with up so floating many bells down" (2) use of vowels sounds like bells and signifies passage of time. "cared for anyone not at all" (5) is phrased so it has positive connotations to get the reader's hopes up and then with "not at all" it lets the reader down characterizing the emotionless society. The most important repeated grammatical pattern first appears as "more by more," (line 12), formed probably by taking the familiar "more and more" and fitting it into the pattern of the equally familiar "little by little." This "x by x" pattern soon changes to "x by y" in line 13: "when by now and tree by leaf." Altogether, these two patterns occur thirteen times in the poem, becoming so dominant in lines 27 through 32 that their effect is almost incantatory.

Symbol: "spring summer autumn winter" (3) symbolizes passage of time, and beginning with spring which symbolizes love and birth and describes anyone's personality. Later, "autumn winter spring summer" (11) starting with autumn which symbolizes death and makes the life cycle complete. "anyone" (1) symbolizes a nonconformist, and "noone" (12) symbolizes his lover. "Children" (9) symbolize innocence, and only they can believe that people can actually love each other for their individuality. "Snow" (22) symbolizes the loss of innocence, because it is the color white but it is also frozen, and therefore the purity is lost, and only that can explain why children forget with time that different people can love each other.

Punctuation: there are only 2 periods in the poem which are both before "women and men" and they create a pause in the flow of the poem and enfoce the idea of the society being corruped and not harmonious because it does not accept differences. All the parenthetical expressions used amplify the psychological workings of people rather than to describe places or objects. They can be taken to reveal the inner selves of the women and men iin the second stanza, the inner workings of the children in the third stanza, the inner workings of everyones and someones in the fifth stanza, the inner workings again of the children's minds in the sixth stanza, the inner workings of noone in the seventh stanza, and the inner workings again of the women and men in the ninth stanza.

Capitalization: "Women" (33) - makes phrase stand out and become more awkward which helps to enforce idea of society being corrupt and jarring when everyone is the same and follows their own routine. "i" (25) is not capitalized which signifies the unimportance of the narrator and also signifying that he identifies with anyone and noone because he is different as well

Paradox : "laughed their cryings," (18) is an example of ordinary couples' lack of understanding, implying incomplete love. It also suggests insensitivity, because they laugh at people's cryings.