A wife in London

Question	Answer
Stanza 1	Get ready!
She sits in the ______ vapour	Tawny
That the ____ lanes have uprolled	City
Behind who's _____ fold on fold	Webby
Like a ______ tapour	Waning
The ______ lamp glimmers cold	Street
Stanza 2	Get ready!
A __________ knock cracks smartly	Messenger's
_______ news is in her hand	Flashed
Of _______ it dazes to understand	Meaning
Though shaped so _______	Shortly
He has ______ in the far southland	Fallen
Stanza 3	Get ready!
'Tis the morrow, the fog hangs _______	Thicker
The postman _____ and goes	Nears
A letter is brought _____ lines disclose	Whose
By the _________ flicker	Firelight
His hand, ____ the worm now knows	Whom
Stanza 4	Get ready!
Fresh, firm, penned in _______ feather	Highest
____ full of his hoped return	Page
And of home planned ______ by brake and burn	Jaunts
In the ______ weather	Summer
And of new ____ that they would learn	Love
Poem Complete!	Now try taking more than one word out so you know the whole poem from memory!

Resource summary

	Created by Luke Howson about 10 years ago