English, 18.12.2021 07:50, haileybug0305

Match each excerpt to the correct type of poetry. "If seven maids with seven mops
Swept it for half a year,
Do you suppose," the Walrus said,
"That they could get it clear?"
"I doubt it," said the Carpenter,
And shed a bitter tear.

(Lewis Carroll, “The Walrus and
the Carpenter”)

Oh what is that country
And where can it be,
Not mine own country,
But dearer far to me?
Yet mine own country,
If I one day may see
Its spices and cedars,
Its gold and ivory.

(Christina Rossetti, “Mother Country”)

Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.

(H. W. Longfellow, “A Psalm of Life”)

Said the Chair unto the Table,
“Now you know we are not able!
How foolishly you talk,
When you know we cannot walk!”
Said the Table, with a sigh,
“It can do no harm to try.
I've as many legs as you,
Why can't we walk on two?"

(Edward Lear, “The Table and the Chair”)

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Swept it for ha

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