Read this excerpt from “The Song of Wandering Aengus” by William Butler Yeats.When I had laid it on the floorI went to blow the fire a-flame,But something rustled on the floor,And someone called me by my nameWhich words in the first line of the excerpt are emphasized by the rhythm of the poem?

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I, laid, on, and floor

Rhyme, Rhythm, and Visualizing in a Yeats Poem

Read this excerpt from “The Song of Wandering Aengus” by William Butler Yeats.When I had laid it on the floorI went to blow the fire a-flame,But something rustled on the floor,And someone called me by my nameWhich words in the first line of the excerpt are emphasized by the rhythm of the poem?

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