A poem on train journey by Robert Louis Stevenson

1. -Robert Louis Stevenson

2. Robert Louis Stevenson

3. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Scottish writer
Well known for children’s classics
Major works : Treasure Island,
Kidnapped and Strange Case of Dr
Jerkyll and Mr Hyde
Most famous translated author

4. From a Railway Carriage

5. Faster than fairies, faster than witches,
Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches
And charging along like troops in a battle
All through the meadows the horses and
cattle:
All of the sights of the hill and the plain
Fly as thick as driving rain;
And ever again, in the wink of an eye,
Painted stations whistle by.

6. Where does the train move
through?
Village City

7. What is similar about the words
‘witches’ and ‘ditches’?
 A) Both are in middle of line and rhyme with each
other
 B) Both are at the end of a line and rhyme with each
other
 C) Both are at the end of a line and do not rhyme with
each other
 D) Both are at the beginning of a line and rhyme with
each other

8. Rhyming words make poem musical

9. Identify other rhyming words in
the poem
 Cattle – Battle
 Plain – Rain
 Eye - By

10. Identify words which describe
movement
 Faster
 Fly
 Charging along
 Battle

11. Identify words which describe
sound
 Whistle
 Driving rain