The Cloud Question
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'The Cloud' by Percy Bysshe Shelley
I am the daughter of Earth and Water,
And the nursling of the Sky;
I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores;
I change, but I cannot die.
Why do you think that the poet decided to use the word "water" instead of "ocean" at the end of line 1?
I am the daughter of Earth and Water,
And the nursling of the Sky;
I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores;
I change, but I cannot die.
Why do you think that the poet decided to use the word "water" instead of "ocean" at the end of line 1?
- 'Water' is more descriptive
- 'Ocean' would ruin the internal rhyme scheme
- 'Ocean' would ruin the alliteration
- 'Water' fits with the external rhyme scheme
- All of the above