The tempest gather’d o’er her.”
Those descriptions could be left out; and (reads):—
“For sore dismay’d, through storm and shade,
His child he did discover:—
One lovely hand she stretch’d for aid,
And one was round her lover.”
Teacher: You think the picture of how she looked in the boat does not count?
Pupil: I like it, but it could have been left out.
Teacher: The old ballad singers would have left out that part. Are there things in the earlier part of the poem that could be left out if you just wanted the story?