Animals abound in this poem, they include the oxen with his low call, the bats who flitt about, and the mouse who "shrieked behind the mouldering wainscot.
Animals abound in this poem, they include the oxen with his low call, the bats who flitt about, and the mouse who "shrieked behind the mouldering wainscot." The sixth of its seven stanzas begins three consecutive lines with the word "old," which is used to describe faces, footsteps, and voices, all of which the title character [*] dismisses. The fifth stanza describes how "The shadow of the poplar fell/ upon her bed across her brow" and she seemed to "walk forlorn" through the night without being able to sleep. The speaker continuously harps on the disrepair of her abode which is covered in "marish mosses." Every part ends with the realization "that he cometh not" and that she wants to die. That he, would be Angelo, who has left her behind in "the moated grange," FTP, name this character from Measure for Measure, the title figure of a poem by Tennyson.
Animals abound in this poem, they include the oxen with his low call, the bats who flitt about, and the mouse who "shrieked behind the mouldering wainscot.
{Mariana}