Ballads
Ballad's usually tell a ______.
What is a story?
The landlord's daughter.
Who is Bess?
He wears a "half-cocked hat."
Who is the Highwayman?
Tall white building on Flannan Isle.
What is a lighthouse?
Number of black birds the sailors see as they arrive.
What is three?
Sport this poem is about.
What is football (or soccer)?
A ballad is a type of this form of literature.
What is a poem or poetry?
The road is described as being a "_______ of moonlight."
What is ribbon?
Nickname used to describe the soldiers.
What are redcoats?
The abandoned dinner consists of meat, bread and ______.
What is cheese?
The missing lighthouse keepers kept this animal as a pet.
What is a bird?
Name of the stadium in which the disaster happened.
What is Hillsborough?
Ballads are divided up into these (the song equivalents of verses).
What are stanzas?
The highwayman's coat is this deep red colour.
Tim's hair is described as being the colour of "moudly ____".
What is hay?
The rescue boat arrives at this time of day.
What is night time or twilight?
The three black birds are sitting 'bolt-upright' on a reef looking like _________ .
What are seamen?
The disaster happened in this country.
What is England?
Name for a four-line stanza.
What is a quatrain?
The redcoats fight for this monarch.
Who is King George?
Tim's job.
What is an ostler?
Name of someone whose job it is to look after a lighthouse.
What is a keeper?
The resuers can smell these two things when they reach the lighthouse.
What are limewash and tar?
Number of people who died in the disaster.
What is 96?
Traditionally, these two lines of a quatrain rhyme.
What is 2nd and 4th?
The onomatopoeia Noyes uses to describe the horses' hooves on the road.
What is T-L-O-T?
Country this poem is set in.
What is England?
Flannan Isle is off the coast of this country.
What is a Scotland?
Surname of the poet.
What is Wilson Gibson?
Name of either team playing in the match that fatal day.
Who are Everton and Nottingham Forest?