l. 1-4.—Simple description, the last line slightly colored with emotion.
l. 5, 6.—Note how the voice becomes suppressed in sympathy with the picture.
l. 7, 8.—Simple description.
l. 9-12.—Simple description.
l. 13-16.—The important part this pathway is to play in the poem and the danger of the rider will bring the suggestion of fear into the voice of the reader. It is the effect of the picture upon us that we must manifest; this is half the art of reading.
l. 17-24.—The joy of Pablo will find an echo in our reading, as will his joyous defiance in l. 23, 24.
l. 25-27.—Simple description to “behind him,” when the coming event casts its shadow before; the color of the next line is clearly anticipated on these two words.
l. 28.—The atmosphere is difficult to characterize in a word, but not to manifest.
l. 29-32.—Note the marked change. The atmosphere is largely that of sympathy—fury and dogged, gloomy determination. Perhaps there might be something of our horror and loathing in l. 29.
l. 33-36.—Simple description.