The two lines in the poem that indicate its theme in
'A Shadow' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow are:
I said unto myself, if I were dead,
What would befall these children? What would be
Because the main theme is the love that he feels for his children. So Longfellow is concerned about what will happen to his children if he eventually dyes. He tries to convince himself that they will be able to do their lives decent because he properly educates them.
Because he is telling you what he himself is actually seeing
Answer:
1. Three
2. Aabb
3. Fixed form
Explanation:
Think of the excerpt they gave us as paragraphs instead of stanzas . There are three large chunks in the passage which would make it three stanzas . The rhyme scheme would be aabb because of its constant rhyming through each line . And the poetic structure the author uses is fixed form due to how he interprets his poem in a mannerly structure .
