Gunpowder Plot

             Verse 3.
             I felt a loud crash as the rocket exploded in the air and the thrill you get when you hear the huge bang and see the brilliant sparks jump out everywhere. But that was the ending of the last verse but attached to the beginning of the next verse. I think the poet does this because the last verse had a huge sense of excitement and thrill because of the fireworks but the next verse is calmer so putting it in the 3rd verse shows the difference better. The atmosphere is now calmer and quieter and you get the warm feeling of the bonfire on which the guy is being consumed by the flames, for example the metaphor "greedy flames" was effective because it made me think as if the guy was being eagerly eaten up buy the flames. The warm words the poet uses such as "flames", "harvest", and "grain" which makes me think of warm things, but the poet also uses the words threshed harvest and grain because these words are all associated with farming. And the farmers would be harvesting the fields about that time in November.
             Verse 4.
             Now there is a big change in mood again, from coming from the warm quietness of the bonfire to the big excitement of lighting a rocket it changes the mood very quickly. The poet uses exclamation marks and short sentences to show how excited the boy was. The word "helter-skelter" makes me think the women are running around in no particular direction only driven by the fear of the cannon. When the poet used the metaphors "cat-like hiss" and "sly" he is trying to put across to the reader that the firework almost has a life of its own and its own intent by comparing it to a cat. The phrase "cat-like hiss" is very effective because it made me think of a cat when it is angry, which is a scary and dangerous situation. So it made me think that the firework was going to injure someone intentionally because the poet also gave the firework personification.
             Verse 5.
             When the poet put sly into the last paragraph it separated the metaphor physically to show that the firework almost intentionally waited, and he was comparing the firework to a cat.