=1.= Lean galloper in a wind of splendid deeds,
Note the vivid imagery and the effect of the broken meter.
=4.= The horse stopped short—then Jamie was aware, etc.
What gives the effect of loneliness in these lines?
Note the effect of vast stretches of space in the use of the
names of heavenly bodies to denote the points of the compass. A
sense of the infinity of space arises often in the reader of
this poem.
Any imaginative person feels this sense ever deepening upon him
on looking long at the prairies.
=11.= Save for a welter of cawing crows,
What is the effect of the cawing of the crows in the general
stillness?
Note that the meter is intentionally changed. What effect?
=13.= One faint star, set above the fading blush, etc.
What is the effect of the mention of the star and its growing
from faint to clear?
=16.= For answer, the horse neighed.
What is the effect of the neighing of the horse?
=17.= Some vague mistrust now made him half afraid, etc.
Mistrust of what? Is disaster near?