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“The Village Blacksmith”
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, pages 50-51
Vocabulary
sinewy – muscular
bellows – wind-tunnels, chimneys
chaff – tease
threshing – beating
repose – sleep
1. How does the speaker feel about the village blacksmith?
2. The third line of second stanza, “His brow is wet with honest sweat,” is an example of what
poetic technique?
3. What, according to the speaker, do children love about the blacksmith?
4. In stanzas five and six, what causes the blacksmith to think simultaneously of both his
daughter and his wife?
5. What is the lesson taught by the blacksmith?
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