In the 1st 2 verses the highwayman is very posh and going to the inn.
3rd verse
He is in love with Bess and he is standing below the window
4
Tim the guy who looks after wine is listening and he loves Bess too and he knows Bess loves the highwayman so hes planning revenge which is on a different verse.And Tim is really ugly
5
He is flirting with Bess. He says he'll be back no matter what happens and he'll bring back gold. He steals gold because that's his job, he's a highwayman.
6
He just about touches her hand. He undoes her hair and kisses it. he then goes.
7 and 8 and 9(here comes revenge) soldiers came and drank wine, which Tim gave them. the landlord didnt know about anything. they tied bess up because they knew she loved the highwayman. The soldiers were going to shoot the highwayman ad bess couldn't save him.
10 and 11
Bess reaches and struggles for the gun to save the highwayman.When she heard his horse coming the only thing she could do is kill herself. The sound of the gun would be a warning to the highwayman. So she dies.
12 and 13
The highwayman gets the message and rund away
other verses
he finds out bess is dead at dawn and gets killed
som say they are ghosts
if a highwayman was caught he would be hung
Alfred Noyes wrote the poem "The Highwayman" in 1906.
Alfred Noyse wrote the English poem The Highwayman.
A piece from a poem is called a stanza. Each stanza consists of a group of lines that form a verse within a poem.
The rhyme scheme used in "The Highwayman" poem by Alfred Noyes is AABB. This means that the last words in the first and second lines rhyme with each other, and the last words in the third and fourth lines rhyme with each other.
Rapier, Pistols and whip
he was 34 when he wrote the poem the highwayman
The main characters in the poem "The Highwayman" by Alfred Noyes are the highwayman himself, Bess, and Tim the ostler. The poem follows the story of the highwayman, his lover Bess, and the tragic events that unfold when Bess sacrifices herself to warn him of a trap set by the authorities.
In the poem, the Highwayman, Bess and the highwayman are both killed. At the end of the poem, however, it tells of the legend that the ghost of the highway man comes to the inn where the ghost of Bess waits for him. Therefore, in this sense, the Highwayman is supernatural.
yes
King George
"The Highwayman"