Read the excerpt from "John Burns of Gettysburg” by Bret Harte.The milk that fell like a babbling floodInto the milk-pail red as blood!Or how he fancied the hum of beesWere bullets buzzing among the trees. But all such fanciful thoughts as theseWere strange to a practical man like Burns

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“Were bullets buzzing among the trees.”

Analyzing Imagery and Sound in Poetry

Read the excerpt from "John Burns of Gettysburg” by Bret Harte.The milk that fell like a babbling floodInto the milk-pail red as blood!Or how he fancied the hum of beesWere bullets buzzing among the trees. But all such fanciful thoughts as theseWere strange to a practical man like Burns

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