LOLA JACOBS ASSIGNMENTS © 2024
ENG1517
ASSIGNMENT NO: 03
YEAR : 2024
PREVIEW:
The poem uses an AABB rhyme scheme. This is because each pair of consecutive lines rhymes
with each other.
Quotation:
• "The moon has a face like the clock in the hall;
She shines on thieves on the garden wall,"
• "On streets and field and harbour quays,
And birdies asleep in the forks of the trees."
, LOLA JACOBS ASSIGNMENTS © 2024
Question 1
Read the following short poem and answer the questions that follow.
THE MOON
By Robert Louis Stevenson
The moon has a face like the clock in the hall;
She shines on thieves on the garden wall,
On streets and field and harbour quays*,
And birdies asleep in the forks of the trees.
The squalling cat and the squeaking mouse,
The howling dog by the door of the house,
The bat that lies in bed at noon,
All love to be out by the light of the moon.
But all of the things that belong to the day
Cuddle to sleep to be out of her way; And
flowers and children close their eyes
Till up in the morning the sun shall arise.
(Stevenson, R.L. 2008. ‘The Moon’, in A Child’s Garden of Verses. Project Gutenberg
Edition. Available: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25609. Accessed on: 2 June 2023).
ENG1517
ASSIGNMENT NO: 03
YEAR : 2024
PREVIEW:
The poem uses an AABB rhyme scheme. This is because each pair of consecutive lines rhymes
with each other.
Quotation:
• "The moon has a face like the clock in the hall;
She shines on thieves on the garden wall,"
• "On streets and field and harbour quays,
And birdies asleep in the forks of the trees."
, LOLA JACOBS ASSIGNMENTS © 2024
Question 1
Read the following short poem and answer the questions that follow.
THE MOON
By Robert Louis Stevenson
The moon has a face like the clock in the hall;
She shines on thieves on the garden wall,
On streets and field and harbour quays*,
And birdies asleep in the forks of the trees.
The squalling cat and the squeaking mouse,
The howling dog by the door of the house,
The bat that lies in bed at noon,
All love to be out by the light of the moon.
But all of the things that belong to the day
Cuddle to sleep to be out of her way; And
flowers and children close their eyes
Till up in the morning the sun shall arise.
(Stevenson, R.L. 2008. ‘The Moon’, in A Child’s Garden of Verses. Project Gutenberg
Edition. Available: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25609. Accessed on: 2 June 2023).
