—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
What is the atmosphere of this poem? Compare it in this respect with Pibroch of Donuil Dhu.
How does it differ from the latter in expression, so far as Time, Pitch, and Force are concerned? (Introduction, pp. [13], [22] and [26].)
WAFTED, AFTER, MASTERS, POEM, CORRIDORS, SORROW. (Appendix [A, 1].)
Observe the difficulties of Articulation in ll. 3, 11, 15, 18, 22, 26, 28 and 31. (Appendix [A, 3] and [A, 6].)
THE SCHOOLMASTER AND THE BOYS
From "The Old Curiosity Shop"
1. The schoolmaster had scarcely arranged the room in due order, and taken his seat behind his desk, when a white-headed boy with a sunburnt face appeared at the door, and stopping there to make a rustic bow, came in and took his seat upon one of the forms. The white-headed boy then put an open book, astonishingly dog-eared, upon his knees, and thrusting his hands into his pockets, began counting the marbles with which they were filled. Soon afterwards another white-headed little boy came straggling in, and after him a red-headed lad, and after him two more with white heads, and then one with a flaxen poll, and so on until there were about a dozen boys in all, with heads of every colour but gray, and ranging in their ages from four years old to fourteen years or more; for the legs of the youngest were a long way from the floor when he sat upon the form, and the eldest was a heavy, good-tempered, foolish fellow, about half a head taller than the schoolmaster.