The fifth line reads: "D. He was my uncle, the one who lived in the half-finished basement, and he told me caught by the hair. »This line was very unexpected and this line makes the poem what it is. The poem changes from a love poem to a darker, more painful story. The tone of the poem also takes on a stranger tone. Another thing about the third stanza is that at this point in the poem I can connect the poem to the Greek mythological story of Persephone and Hades. The allusion sets up the rest of the poem and gives the poem much more meaning. As we move to the fourth stanza, Stalling introduces the first two lines with a simile. She compares the place where Hades took Persephone to the darkness of his closed eyes. This comparison is strange because when a person normally compares something to darkness, we might say "dark as the midnight sky", but Stalling takes an atypical approach in his comparison. His approach was very critical at this point in the poem because everything starts to get strange and dark. The second line of the poem reads: “The place he took me to:B. and where I ate bitter seeds and became