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Adapted from "A Ballad for London" By Richard Le Gallienne
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Ah, London! London! our delight,
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Great flower that opens but at night, Great City of the Midnight Sun,
Whose day begins when day is done.
Lamp after lamp against the sky
7. Opens a sudden beaming eye,
8. Leaping alight on either hand
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The iron lilies of the Strand.
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11. Like dragonflies, the hansoms* hover,
12. With jeweled eyes, to catch the lover;
13. The street gowns, of litter d swied doves.
The human moths about the light
17. Dash and cling close in dazed delight,
18. And burn and lạugh, the world and wife,
For this is London, this is life!
Upon your petals butterflies,
23. Aworld of weeping trodaen things,
Poor worms that have not eyes or wings.
From out corruption of their woe
Question 4:
What is the best way to describe how the poet presents the poem?
He begins optimistically and ends with a sad prediction.
He cautiously contrasts London's success to others' failures.
He consistently uses patriotism to make his city appear mighty.
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He describes his hometown negatively and unapologetically.