What is the effect of these two lines? What is the “vast denial”?

Why mention “the champing of the horse”? Pages [9] and [10] are used to induce in the reader a sense of extreme loneliness.

Where is the climax? What devices have been employed for the purpose?

17. The laggard air was like a voice that sang,

Why is the air now as a voice that sings rather than drowsy and weird?

18. And Jamie half believed he sniffed the tang

19. Of woodsmoke and the smell of flesh a-roast;

These lines indicate the lad’s eagerness.

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2. And in the whirlwind of a moment there, etc.