She also shifts from the Mariana-like prisoner type of character to the Fatima-like self-destructive character as the poem progresses.

However, as the poem progresses, the tone gradually transforms into something more sarcastic and biting.

The moon, a symbol of the beloved, sinks steadily as the poem progresses, until its abrupt drop in the penultimate stanza.

As the poem progresses, the narrator lists those who work to use science and reason to help mankind, including Benjamin Franklin, called "Patriot Sage":

The poem also progresses with the phrase, 'it is now' cutting off the second section from the ten lines of the first.

As the poem progresses, she begins a series of transformations out of this repressed self.

As the poem progresses and each section lengthens, an increasing number of elements related to destruction, death, and ecological devastation are introduced.

And so his hurt intensifies as the poem progresses.

As the poem progresses it is beast, not beauty, which meets beast.

As the poem progresses, he reveals that he depends on the number of his actions to verify his deeds: