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=9.= The dusty progress of the cavalcade

=10.= The journey of a snail flock to the moon;

What feeling in Jamie is made clear in this figure?

=11.= Until the shadow-weaving afternoon

Explain the figure “shadow-weaving afternoon,” etc.

=17.= Hoofbeats of ghostly steeds on every hill,

=18.= Mysterious, muffled hoofs on every bluff!

=19.= Spurred echo horses clattering up the rough, etc.

Explain “hoofbeats of ghostly steeds,” “muffled hoofs,” “echo

horses.”

=21.= The lagging air droned like the drowsy word

Why “drowsy” word? The transfer of an epithet is called a

“trope,” from a Greek word meaning _to turn_.

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