Count That Day Lost by George Eliot (part 2)
Analyze 'Count That Day Lost' by George Eliot! Understand stanzas, word meanings, and what makes a day well spent.
Stanza. A stanza is a group of lines that form the basic metrical unit in a poem. So, in a 12-line poem, the first four lines might be a stanza. You can identify a stanza by the number of lines it has and its rhyme scheme or pattern, such as A-B-A-B. Answer the following questions:1) How many stanzas are there in the poem? 2) The word count can mean "to list or to number" or "to consider". This word appears in lines 2, 8 and 16. Which meaning is correct in each line?a) line 2: _b) line 8: _c) line 16:_ 3) According to the poem, what should a person do at sunset? 4) What words / phrases are repeated in the poem? What do they mean each time? 5) Write two things which make a day "well spent" according to the poet.a) _b) _ 6) Write two things which make a day "worse than lost" according to the poet.a) _b) _