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O.ABOOTTY Posted 11 years ago
Grammar
Figure of Speech
My apple trees will never get across,
And eat the cones under his pines
- Mending Wall
Could anyone tell me the figure of speech in this sentence?
And eat the cones under his pines
- Mending Wall
Could anyone tell me the figure of speech in this sentence?
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Dear O I am sorry but this does not make much sense to me. It is unusual to use "get across" with "trees", and we do not have enough context to know exactly what the writer meant by this line. "Pine cones" are the hard fruits which fall from pine trees.
- Dear O I am sorry but this does not make much sense to me.
- It is unusual to use "get across" with "trees", and we do not have enough context to know exactly what the writer meant by this line.
- "Pine cones" are the hard fruits which fall from pine trees.
- I do not know who the pines belong to here ("his").
- The verse is just too mysterious for me to make much sense of.
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Dear O
I am sorry but this does not make much sense to me. It is unusual to use "get across" with "trees", and we do not have enough context to know exactly what the writer meant by this line.
"Pine cones" are the hard fruits which fall from pine trees. I do not know who the pines belong to here ("his").
The verse is just too mysterious for me to make much sense of.
I am sorry but this does not make much sense to me. It is unusual to use "get across" with "trees", and we do not have enough context to know exactly what the writer meant by this line.
"Pine cones" are the hard fruits which fall from pine trees. I do not know who the pines belong to here ("his").
The verse is just too mysterious for me to make much sense of.
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