"To My Dear Loving Husband" and "To the King's Most Excellent Majesty":
The couplet pattern of both poems are consecutive pairs of rhyming lines. Each poem features an important person in the writer's life and the theme of each poem is to show gratitude and loyalty to these persons. Each poem is used by the writer to emphasize the importance of duty, love, and respect.
Anne Bradstreet used inversion in her poem "To My Dear Loving Husband" to ensure that each line end with a word that completes the rhyme scheme.
The thrush is speaking. This is the culmination of Bilbo's recollection in a previous chapter. The thrush notifies bard of Smaug's weakness, thus helping him take down Smaug.
