- Line 2: "Sighs the sad genius of the coming storm"
- Line 5: "And cave, presageful, send a hollow moan"
2. List two examples of alliteration in lines 1-6.
- Line 2: "Sighs the sad genius"
- Line 6: "Resounding long in listening fancy's ear."
3. What does Thomson mean by "pleasing dread."
- I think that "pleasing dread" means that the nature is so majestic that it fills the author with an astonished sense of powerful emotion. It surprises the author in a good way and fills him with that emotion.
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