e!
In my verse, Herve Riel, do thou once more
Save the squadron, honour France, love thy wife the Belle
Aurore! 140

--_Robert Browning_
(_By permission of the owner of the copyright
and Smith, Elder & Co._)

PREPARATORY.--Narrate briefly the events of the poem and
describe (_a_) the council, (_b_) the scene after the
ships are safely anchored.

How does this poem illustrate the truth that the highest
motive in life is duty? From this standpoint compare
Herve Riel with Sir Richard Grenville in Tennyson's _The
Revenge_.

Give other examples to show that true nobility does not
depend on such externals as rank and position.

2. WOE TO FRANCE. How does the voice indicate that this
phrase is parenthetical?

4. What is the subject of PURSUE? Its object? How does
the reader make the meaning clear?

3-5. What is the Shading?

8 and 14. Supply the ellipsis in each case. How is the
reading affected by an ellipsis? (Introduction, p. 10.)

12-14. What is the Stress? (Introduction, pp. 27 and
28.)

16-25. What energy characterizes these lines? With what
Stress should they be read?

TWELVE AND EIGHTY GUNS, TWENTY TONS. What is the
difference in the Quality of voice? Compare MAN OF MARK,
SIMPLE BRETON SAILOR, ll. 40 and 42.

26. Where is the Pause? Why?

Note the transitions in ll. 27, 31, 32, and 33. How is
each one indicated?

38. STOOD, STEPPED, STRUCK. Observe the increased
Emphasis. Compare ll. 46 and 69.

41-43. Note the contrast. What is the Inflection on each
part? (Introduction, p. 20.)

45-66. What state of mind does Herve Riel's speech
indicate throughout? What feelings predominate when he
addresses (_a_) the Malouins, (_b_) the officers? What
Time, Pitch, Force, and Stress are the natural
expression?

46. COWARDS, FOOLS, ROGUES. What is the Inflection on
each word? (Introduction, p. 20.)

65. KEEL SO MUCH, ETC. Note the Pause and Grouping.

72, 73-76, 77-84. What is the predominant feeling in
each passage?

104-113. Compare the self-control of Damfreville's
speech with the impulsive shout of the preceding stanza.
What is the resulting difference in vocal expression?

114-116. Note the Pause and Grouping.

118-122. What is the Inflection? (Introduction, p. 17.)

129-132. Observe the Grouping.

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