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Number a piece of paper from 1-15

3. What is the meter of this stanza? She went to work until she grew too old, Came home at night to feed the eunuch cat That kept the mat warm and its eyeballs cold. She walked, but ran to wrinkles, then to fat,

4. What is the meter of this stanza? O, my luve's like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June: O, my luve's like the melodie That's sweetly played in tune.

5. What is the meter of this stanza? O thou, new-year, delaying long, Delayest the sorrow in my blood, That longs to burst a frozen bud And flood a fresher throat with song

6. What type of stanza is this? Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

7. What type of stanza is this? A still small voice spake unto me: 'Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?

8. What type of stanza is this? I found a starfish in the bay When I was fishing yesterday

9. What type of stanza is this? My mother’s maids, when they did sew and spin, They sang sometimes a song of the field mouse, That for because their livelihood was but so thin

10. Who is the protagonist of “The Ballad of the Harp- Weaver”

11. What is the point of view of the poem?

12. What does the mother use to make the boy some clothes?

13. What happened to the boy’s mother at the end?

14. What is the mood of the story?

15. Who is the author?

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Rhyme Scheme or Meter

Stanzas

3. What is the meter of this stanza? She went to work until she grew too old, Came home at night to feed the eunuch cat That kept the mat warm and its eyeballs cold. She walked, but ran to wrinkles, then to fat, A B A B

4. What is the meter of this stanza? O, my luve's like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June: O, my luve's like the melodie That's sweetly played in tune. A B C B

5. What is the meter of this stanza? O thou, new-year, delaying long, Delayest the sorrow in my blood, That longs to burst a frozen bud And flood a fresher throat with song A B B A

6. What type of stanza is this? Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? Quatrain

7. What is type of stanza is this? A still small voice spake unto me: 'Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be? Triplet

8. What type of stanza is this? I found a starfish in the bay When I was fishing yesterday Couplet

9. What type of stanza is this? My mother’s maids, when they did sew and spin, They sang sometimes a song of the field mouse, That for because their livelihood was but so thin Tercet

10. Who is the protagonist of “The Ballad of the Harp- Weaver” the boy/ the child

11. What is the point of view of the poem? 1 st person

12. What does the mother use to make the boy some clothes? the harp

13. What happened to the boy’s mother at the end? she dies

14. What is the mood of the story? sad, unhappy, somber, woeful, depressing, sorrowful, desolate, mournful, despondent, doleful, despondent, miserable, etc.

15. Who is the author? Edna St. Vincent Millay

1.Count up how many are correct 2.Write that number on the top of the page 3.Circle it 4.Pass the paper back to it’s owner

Alfred Noyes

 Setting: England in the 17 th -18 th century  A highway man is a person who robs passengers on the highway  Red coats are soldiers  King George was the king of England during this period  A musket is a type of gun they had in those days

Checking for understanding

QuestionsAnswers 1. What is the Meter? 2. Who came riding up the road? 3. Who was he coming to see? 4. What was her name? 5. What did she look like? 6. What did the highway man promise Bess? 7. Who was listening? 1. A A B C B 2. The highwayman 3. The Landlord’s daughter 4. Bess 5. Black hair and black eyes 6. That he would come to her by midnight 7. Tim the ostler (stableman)

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QuestionsAnswers 1. Who came marching to town? 2. What did they do to Bess? 3. What did her finger touch? 4. What did they hear on the road? 5. What did Bess do when she heard him coming? 6. Why did Bess kill herself? 7. What happened to the highwayman? 8. What happened after their death? 1. The red coats (soldiers) 2. They tied her up 3. The trigger of the musket 4. The “tlot, tlot” of the horse 5. She pulled the trigger and killed herself. 6. To warn her lover of the trap 7. He was shot down in the highway? 8. Their ghosts haunted the Inn