Autumn Fires
In the other gardens
And all up the vale,
From the autumn bonfires
See the smoke trail!
Pleasant summer over
And all the summer flowers,
The red fire blazes,
The grey smoke towers.
Sing a song of seasons!
Something bright in all!
Flowers in the summer,
Fires in the fall!
Robert Louis Stevenson
Underline the verbs in red and the nouns in blue
Stanza 1
NOUNS | VERBS |
Gardens | See |
Vale | |
Bonfires | |
Trail |
Stanza 2
NOUNS | VERBS |
Summer | Blazes |
Flowers | Towers |
Fire | |
Smoke |
Stanza 3
NOUNS | VERBS |
Songs | Sing |
Seasons | |
Flowers | |
Summer | |
Fires | |
Fall |
Underline the adjectives.
Stanza 1
Autumn
Stanza 2
Summer
Red
Grey
Stanza 3
Bright
What idea do the adjectives convey?
Red
Fires Autumn colours
Think about the adjective bright: what is it related to?
Bright
Flowers Fires
Complete the table
Autumn/Fall | |
Seasons | W_ _ _ _r |
S_ _ _ _g | |
Su_ _er |
Language
Look at stanzas 2 and 3
What are the main sounds?
Stanza | Sounds |
2 | /z/ |
/s/ | |
3 | /s/ /f/ |
/r/ |
What does this suggest?
The noise of dead leaves.