TeachersFirst: The Highwayman

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ungainly:
awkward

sniggering:
jeering or snickering

fowl:
bird

ebony:
dark colored

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

Plutonian:
pertaining to the classical Underworld

relevancy:
significance

shorn:
cut

decorum:
formality