The Highway Man
...n whom was a robber he dressed very well as in the poem he wore a French cocked hat and a coat of claret velvet. Although he stole from people I didn’t think he was the bad guy in the poem. He was deeply in love with the landlord’s daughter called Bess she loved the Highwayman dearly. Bess had long black hair and dark, dark eyes she was strong and willing as she stepped forward to give up her life so that her lover would be warned. One person who didn’t love the highwayman was Tim (the ostler) he loved Bess also and was raging with envy at the highwayman because Bess loved the highwayman and not him. Tim had mouldy hay like hair, and a peaky white face. I thought he was sneaky. The plot of this story was when Tim told King George’s men where the highwayman would be and they came and tied Bess up to the foot of her narrow bed, the tension grew until it reached the climax, the point which was when Bess saw the highwayman coming and she killed herself to warn him with her death. In part one of the highwayman there was lots of similes describing people like when the poet was describing Tim the ostler he used the simile “Hair like mouldy hay” to describe his hair. The poet also used a very effective similie when he described how the highwayman felt when Bess’s hair fell onto his face. The poem also had lots of effective metaphors in it. The clouds were described as cloudy seas as the moon looked like a ship on the sea. There were not as many similes and metaphors in part two. Regular onomatopoeia, and alliteration were used one of the best uses of alliteration was “Down like a Dog” this phrase is also a simile and I like it as it has a very harsh D. There were not regular uses of onomatopoeia but there was very good uses one of the good uses of onomatopoeia were tlot - tlot, tlot- tlot this mimics he horses footsteps galloping along the ground. ^^ The rhyming scheme AACCBB was used when writing this poem it is used in every verse and the CC stands for the chorus one of the examples...