Consider the following poem: One…
Consider the following poem: One Christmas-time, The day before the holidays began, Feverish, and tired, and restless, I went forth Into the fields, impatient for the sight Of those two horses which should bear us home, My brothers and myself. There was a crag, An eminence, which from the meeting-point Of two highways ascending overlooked At least a long half-mile of those two roads, By each of which the expected steeds might come— The choice uncertain. Thither I repaired Up to the highest summit. ’Twas a day Stormy, and rough, and wild, and on the grass I sate half sheltered by a naked wall. Upon my right hand was a single sheep, A whistling hawthorn on my left, and there, With those companions at my side, I watched, Straining my eyes intensely as the mist Gave intermitting prospect of the wood And plain beneath. Ere I to school returned That dreary time, ere I had been ten days A dweller in my father’s house, he died, And I and my two brothers, orphans then, Followed his body to the grave. The event, With all the sorrow which it brought, appeared A chastisement; and when I called to mind That day so lately past, when from the crag I looked in such anxiety of hope, With trite reflections of morality, Yet in the deepest passion, I bowed low To God who thus corrected my desires. Which formal term best describes this excerpt?