=1.= Not long Hugh let the lust of vengeance gnaw
Note that the first line of the division of the poem rhymes with
the last line of the former. How often does this happen in the
poem? This device keeps the mind on a stretch and so keeps
interest alive. The same device is often used by the author in
passing from one paragraph to the next.
=5.= I can not rest; for I am but the ghost etc.
The old obsession that he actually died by the Grand, though
here used less seriously than in other places.
=12.= With such a blizzard of a face for me!
The epithet reveals how Hugh’s gray “ruined face” impressed men.
=13.= For he went grayer like a poplar tree, etc.
The simile of the face of Glass in mentioning Jamie’s treachery
and the poplar tree shaken by the first wind of a storm is true
to nature, for a poplar turns the gray side of its leaves when
shaken.
Define: fend, kenneled.