This passage comes from “<u><em>The Rainy Day</em></u>” written by <em>H.W. Longfellow</em> and it points out that in life everyone will experience sorrow or heartache, but there is always hope for something better so we must stop complaining.
Question: Identify the meter. Then identify the effect of that meter.
Answer: A. unstressed, stressed, unstressed, stressed, unstressed, stressed, unstressed, stressed. It gives the poem a reflective mood.
"We had passed through long walls of piled skeletons, with casks and puncheons intermingling, into the inmost recesses of the catacombs."
"We are below the river's bed. The drops of moisture trickle among the bones."
These are some sentences that give us the creepy setting that makes for an eerie mood.
People are driving their cars like maniacs tonight. There must be a full moon. can be considered as a Post hoc ergo propter
