Check that you understand the poem’s vocabulary by completing this crossword.
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Across 6. Old word for listening [10] 7. Bewildered, confused, puzzled [9] 8. Flowerless soft green plant [4]
Down 1. Old word for struck hard [5] 2. Old word for spoke [5] 3. Metal object in which you place your foot [7] 4. Small tower on a house or castle [6] 5. Crowding, filling a space [9]
The Listeners by Walter de la Mare
‘Is there anybody there?’ said the Traveller Knocking on the moonlit door;
And his horse in the silence champed the grasses Of the forest’s ferny floor; And a bird flew up out of the turret,
