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'Beloved sweetheart bastard' - powerful oxymoron: contrast between love n hate, confit of feelings
'wished him dead' - Thoughts of revenge/bitterness (line 1+2).
'I've dark green pebbles for eyes' - Met: comparison experience has left her hardened. Green connotations jealousy.
'ropes on the back of my hand i coud strangle with'
'spinster' - SS: emphasising the word has been spat out. Sgl word shows her label
'i stink' - no longer takes care of herself
'cawing' - onomat: a bird's squawk, harsh cry
'yellowing' - dress is dirty and old. Sugeest worn it for ong time, decaying
'trembling' - Personification dress – suggests that Havisham is highly emotional unable to take the dress off
'slewed mirror' - broken like havisham
'her' - refers to her reflection