BRead the poem below, then answer the questions that follow.
The boy stood on the burning deck
Whence all but he had fled;
The flame that lit the battle's wreck.
Shone round him o'er the dead.
1. Give the rhyme scheme of the poem.
2. What is happening in this poem?
3. Give an example of internal rhyme from this poem.
4. What does "whence" mean? What does "o'er" mean?
Yet beautiful and bright he stood,
As born to rule the storm;
A creature of heroic blood,
A proud, though childlike form.
-Felicia Dorothea Hermans, "Casabianca"
BRead the poem below, then answer the questions that follow.
The boy stood on the burning deck
Whence all but he had fled;
The flame that lit the battle's wreck.
Shone round him o'er the dead.
1. Give the rhyme scheme of the poem.
2. What is happening in this poem?
3. Give an example of internal rhyme from this poem.
4. What does "whence" mean? What does "o'er" mean?
Yet beautiful and bright he stood,
As born to rule the storm;
A creature of heroic blood,
A proud, though childlike form.
-Felicia Dorothea Hermans, "Casabianca"
The boy stood on the burning deck
Whence all but he had fled;
The flame that lit the battle's wreck.
Shone round him o'er the dead.
1. Give the rhyme scheme of the poem.
2. What is happening in this poem?
3. Give an example of internal rhyme from this poem.
4. What does "whence" mean? What does "o'er" mean?
Yet beautiful and bright he stood,
As born to rule the storm;
A creature of heroic blood,
A proud, though childlike form.
-Felicia Dorothea Hermans, "Casabianca"
