Count That Day Lost Stanza 2

Count That Day Lost

Stanza 2

Rhyme Scheme:

Rhyme is the use of words with a similar sound, such as be and see, at the ends of lines of poetry. When the rhyming words follow a predictable pattern, we say that the poem has a rhyme scheme. We can find the rhyme scheme by giving the same letter to all the words that end with the same sound:

for example:

• Roses are red a

• Violets are blue b

• Sugar is sweet c

• And so are you b

Poll

What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

• aaabbb

• aabbccdd

• aabccbdd

• aacbbdee

Stanza 2

• But if, through all the livelong day

• you've cheered no heart by yea or nay

• if through it all, you've nothing done that you can trace

• that brought the sunshine to one face

• no act most small

• that helped some soul and nothing cost

• then count that day as worse than lost.

Poll

If you ask your mother to give you some money and she says "yes", is this cheering?

• yes

• no

Open Ended

how is the answer "yes" in the previous questions

Trace the last good deed that you have done...

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You have done nothing!

you can't think of anything that you have done, that made someone smile/feel happy/hope, not even the smallest thing, that helped someone for free and cost you nothing...

your day is worse than lost!

you can't have it back, it's gone!

Multiple Choice

On a day you have done a "self-denying deed" you should (-)

• be ashamed

• be surprised

• feel sorry for yourself

• feel good about yourself

Multiple Choice

The speaker thinks that you can count a day "as worse than lost" if (–)

• you haven't done what you planned to do

• you haven't helped another person

• you haven't had any fun

• you haven't taken any risks

Open Ended

"No act most small / That helped some soul and nothing cost –" Explain in your own words what the speaker means by the words "nothing cost".

Open Ended

"One glance most kind / That fell like sunshine where it went –" Why do you think the poet uses the word "sunshine" in this quote?