Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow:
In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud,
It perched for vespers nine,
Whiles all the night, through fog-smoke white,
Glimmered the white moonshine.”
Questions
(a) Who ‘perched for vespers nine’ ? What does it mean?
(b) Note the poetic device used in the first line.
(c) What shone in the fog-smoke white?