In this poem by Carol Duffy, Medusa is the first person narrator who has been turned into a Gorgon because of her jealousy. She suspects her husband is cheating and everything she looks at is destroyed and turns into stone. In the beginning of the poem, Duffy uses sibilance when she says " A suspicion, a doubt, a jealousy" creating a hissing effect. The poem is plentiful in alliteration and rhyme which gives it more rhythm. Stanzas 3-6 all have end rhyme which includes the last line of the stanza. Medusa ends up questioning herself because she was once beautiful, but ended up having "sour" breath and her hair was turned into " filthy snakes". Duffy utilizes dark humor because the size of the things she turns into stone keep getting larger. She shows the threat of making Medusa angry by using the metaphor "bullet tears" this a paradox because bullets are normally seen as violent, but tears are thought of as weak. Duffy uses metaphors when she says "shield for a heart" and "sword for a tongue" suggesting that her husband never really showed her his love and hurt her with his words. All the stanzas are mostly the same length except for the last one that is only one line but is meant for emphasis to her predicament. At the end, her attention turns to the man who broke her heart. The line "Look at me now" can be thought of as a threat as well as despair. If he did look at her, he would also turn into stone.