Read the excerpt. The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make The billows smooth and bright— And this was odd, because it was The middle of the night. -from "The Walrus and the Carpenter” by Mother Goose
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“The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might.”B
Mother Goose begins to describe the oddity at the end of the first stanza, “And this was odd, because it was / The middle of the night.”C
The sun was shining on the sea, / Shining with all his might:D
The poem says this was odd because it was the middle of the night and the reader is left to wonder, “Why is it odd? How can it be sunny in the middle of the night?”