Question

4. Analyze What words suggest that Aengus is chanting a song?

Answer 1

Answer:

The words are:

- head (Line 2)

- thread (Line 4)

- out (Line 6)

- trout (Line 8)

- aflame (Line 10)

- name (Line 12)

- hair (Line 14)

- air (Line 16)

- lands (Line 18)

- hands (Line 20)

- gone (Line 19)

- done (Line 22)

Explanation:

The above words suggest that Aengus is chanting a song. From the above excerpt, we will discover that all even lines of the poem had last words that ryhme with another.

The rhyming makes the poem songlike. This suggests to the reader that Aengus is chanting a song. Ryhmes tend to give poem a kind of rhythm that makes it somewhat melodious like a song.