They said no word to the landlord, they drank his ale instead,
But they gagged his daughter and bound her to the foot of her
narrow bed;
Two of them knelt at her casement, with muskets at their side!
There was death at every window,
And hell at one dark window,
For Bess could see, through her casement, the road that
he would ride.
The mood of this stanza from “The Highwayman” can best be described as
informal.
anxiety-producing.
lighthearted.
critical.
