What poetic structures are evident in these poetry excerpts? blank valise
ballad stanza
Something there is that doesn't love a wall.
That sends the frozen. ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun,
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
(Robert Frost, "Mending Wall")
And travelling o'er the desert wide
It was a solemn joy,
To see them, ever side by side,
The sailor and the boy
(Charles Dickens, "The Song of the Wreck")
The king sits in Dumferling toune,
Drinking the blude-reid wine:
O quhar will get guid sailor,
To sail this schip of mine.
(Anonymous, "Sir Patrick Spens)

Which two passages in this excerpt from the death of ivan illych does leo tolstoy use to suggest that ivan ilych feels like his life is slipping away from him? "what's the use? it makes no difference," he said to himself, staring with wide-open eyes into the darkness. "death. yes, death. and none of them knows or wishes to know it, and they have no pity for me. now they are playing." (he heard through the door the distant sound of a song and its accompaniment.) "it's all the same to them, but they will die too! fools! i first, and they later, but it will be the same for them. and now they are merry . . the beasts! " anger choked him and he was agonizingly, unbearably miserable. "it is impossible that all men have been doomed to suffer this awful horror! " he raised himself. "something must be wrong. i must calm myself—must think it all over from the beginning." and he again began thinking. "yes, the beginning of my illness: i knocked my side, but i was still quite well that day and the next. it hurt a little, then rather more. i saw the doctors, then followed despondency and anguish, more doctors, and i drew nearer to the abyss. my strength grew less and i kept coming nearer and nearer, and now i have wasted away and there is no light in my eyes.

Some keep the sabbath in surplice - i just wear my wings - and instead of tolling the bell, for church, - our little sexton - sings

Write a sentence using a gerund phrase with a pronoun subject.