Question

2. Why couldn't the poet follow the path taken by the arrow?​

Answer 1

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The Arrow and the Songby Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is made up of three stanzas, each four lines long. Each line is either eight or nine syllables long and rhymes with the last–so that there are a total of eight couplets. Parallelism is important in the poem. The first and second stanza strongly mirror each other grammatically—and, in fact, share an identical line. In each of the first two stanzas, the narrator takes an action, and then states he could not know the consequences of this action. He then explains why he could not. The final stanza reestablishes this parallelism of the previous two stanza within a single stanza. The first two lines of the final stanza conclude the actions begun in the first stanza, while the second two lines conclude the actions begun in the second stanza. The parallelism presented here suggests that we are perhaps supposed to be making a comparison and contrast between two different actions both of which bear consequences.

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