Year 5 have for the last two weeks been studying the poem The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes. There's something for everyone, although mainly the boys seem to enjoy the romance and passion of the poem while the girls have a fondness for the betrayal and violence! Or is that the other way round?
5S picked a key moment from the poem, and created a 'freeze frame' of that moment - can you match the lines of the poem to the pictures?
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| When they shot him down on the highway, Down like a dog on the highway, And he lay in his blood on the highway, with a bunch of lace at his throat. |
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| And dark in the dark old inn-yard a stable wicket creaked | , where Tim the ostler listened. His face was white and peaked. |
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| Blood-red were his spurs i' the golden noon; wine-red was his velvet coat; When they shot him down on the highway... |
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| They had tied her up to attention, with many a sniggering jest. They had bound a musket beside her, with the muzzle beneath her breast! |
i did not like the poem of the highway man it was boring and hard to understand
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