This page details tropes from poems that have been published by the writer who goes under the name of 'formrfuture' on TV tropes.From poems found in Northern Type 51:
First Friend
- Children Are Innocent: At first the two characters are innocent and get on very well. Rivalry comes later.
- Wham Line: Male main character: some things are worth spitting at.
- British Stuffiness: The main female character pretends her objection to the spitting is based on this.
- Violent Glaswegian: The main male character becomes this at the end, and it's hinted that right at the very end the main female might too.
Fire of New Year
Dawn: Early Rising
- Present Day:
Word of God says poem takes place then.
Dust
- Mother Nature: The Main character could be seen as this due to her connection with fertility/blossoming.
When the Giant Comes to Call
- God Save Us from the Queen!: The main character is a deliberately unnamed queen.
- Brawn Hilda: Strong, fat, tall, scary main character who depending on interpretation may be German or may be English.
- Ice Queen: Main character is this especially because she's a Rich Bitch.
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Inferred Holocaust: The people she can ignore might be starving to death.
Solitaire
- Shirtless Scene: The male lover steps out of the shower wrapped just in a Modesty Towel. The poem revolves around his conversation with his girlfriend.
- Wham Line: Female's announcing that there's no way to avoid death.
- Animal Motif: The two lovers are likened to cats sizing each other up.
- Anyone Can Die: Woman focuses on how everyone can die or is dead.
- Sacrificial Lamb: May apply to the guy who might be dead in this. Or not. Word of God says it's closer to "at risk".
- It Always Rains at Funerals: Hinted at with possibility of death and the rain outside.
- The Empire: The British empire is one of the themes here.
- Author Appeal: The guy who's just walked out of the shower & is wrapped in a towel. Word of God says he's hot.
