The poet organizes the poem into stanzas that have four lines or only two lines. Explain why the poet structured the poem in this way by comparing the content presented in the four-line and two-line stanzas. Support your answer with at least two details from the poem.

Answer and Explanation:

This question is about the poem "Brennan on the Moor".

The poet structured the poem in stanzas of four and only verses, because he wanted to tell a story of a hero, but do it in a musical way, where he presented a chorus that reinforces the heroism of that character, but presented stanzas that present the adventures that the hero participated.

In this case, the verses with four verses present the adventures of the hero in a more comprehensive and detailed way, while the verses of two verses, present a refraction that is repeated to reinforce the main characteristic of these heroes and reinforce the theme of the poem.

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government is strong when they have the ability to persuade those they govern to believe government has enough power to force them or should be forcing them to do government’s will.

when enough of the citizenry do not believe government can force them or should force them to do its bidding, government has lost or will lose its strength and power to coerce.

when enough of the citizenry do believe government can force or should force them to do its bidding, they become passive at the least or actively pro-government and repeat government’s own rhetoric to pass on what they have been persuaded by government’s propaganda.

a true majority isn’t always needed to govern or to stop government. many times all that is needed is a strong minority. if a determined 30% of the population rises up against government in a concerted effort to bring it down, this size minority usually will succeed as long as those actively opposing the minority are less in force than the minority. so if 41% of the population sits at home watching tv rooting for one side or the other, they don’t matter. it’s the active parties who make a difference.