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“So We’ll Go No More a Roving”
by George Gordon, Lord Byron, pages 34-35

Vocabulary
roving – traveling about in search of adventure

1. Why does the speaker pledge to not go roving during the night?

2. What is the tone of the poem?

3. According to the first stanza, what has stayed the same?

4. The second stanza contrasts with the first, as it describes things that do change. In your
own words, what are the things, according to the speaker, that we can expect to change in
life?

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