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This poem by L.E. Thayer is very intelligent. Thayer shows in stanza one that there is a hill as the known obstacle and a stone as well that gets in the way. He then has to ascend; he climbs up and overrules adversity, which are known in the poem as the hill, stone, grime and blinding storm. The poem has very obvious imagery, just alone picturing the blinding storm in the reader’s brain makes him/her feel as if he/she were in the same situation as the Thayer. The poem also has a good amount of rhythm and rhyme shown in each and every stanza, more or less at the end of the clause or line. The author makes you feel like your in the shoes of his own and sets a tone, where you can identify the characters state of feeling hopeless,

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