Notes and Questions.
What does the first stanza tell?
The second?
What is the purpose of the fifth stanza?
What comparison is found in the seventh stanza? In the eighth? In the ninth?
What do we mean by "figure of speech?" Illustrate.
State in your own words the thought in the eleventh stanza.
In next to the last stanza give the meaning of the last three lines.
What lesson of heroism does this poem give you?
Whom should you call the hero of this tale?