By the end of this chapter, students will be able to:
- Read and paraphrase the poem part by part.
- Describe the opening scene and the lion fight, identifying visual and sound images.
- Explain the lady's thoughts, motives and action.
- Interpret de Lorge's response and King Francis's verdict.
- Explain the description "smiling lips and sharp bright eyes".
- Identify poetic devices — alliteration, simile, internal rhyme, onomatopoeia, imagery — and the poem's form.
- Answer ICSE extract-based questions, including giving and justifying an alternative title.