TeachersFirst: The Highwayman

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ungainly:
clumsy

fowl:
bird

ebony:
dark colored

Alliteration:
Repeated consonant sounds Internal Rhyme:
Rhyme within the line. Assonance:
Repeated vowel sounds

gloating:
exulting, celebrating

divining:
speculating, conjecturing

Simile:
Compares two things using the word like or as.