TeachersFirst: The Highwayman

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gagged:
restrained to prevent speech

fancy:
imagination

beguiling:
charming, bewitching

ebony:
dark colored

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

Ale:
malt beverage more bitter than beer

countenance:
face

shorn:
cut

decorum:
formality

Personification:
Giving a non-human object human qualities.