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Question
(i) Something happened at Lyonnesse. It was
(a) improbable.
(b) impossible.
(c) unforeseeable.
(ii) Pick out two lines from stanza 2 to justify your answer.
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Solution
(i) Something happened at Lyonnesse. It was unforeseeable.
(ii) The two lines that justify the above answer are as follows:
‘No prophet durst declare;
Nor did the wisest wizard guess’
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