Analyze the provided text. Determine its rhyme scheme, match main ideas to stanzas, identify the king's cruel actions, list the hero's weapons, and explain why the king must be removed.

The first verse consists of 8 lines. We assign letters to rhyming words.

• Days (a)
• Plays (a)
• Down (b)
• Frown (b)
• Drama (c)
• Arena (c)
• Chat (d)
• Act (d) The rhyme scheme is aabbccdd.

• Stanza 1 (lines 1-8): Describes the mask and the waiting crowd. This matches C.
• Stanza 2 (lines 9-16): Describes the hero preparing to fight a cruel king. This matches A.
• Stanza 3 (lines 17-24): Discusses the hero's fate and the audience's desire for comedy after tragedy. This matches B.

The last three lines of stanza 2 state:
"From a cruel king who has little pity"
"Who treats his own people like slaves and fools"
"He must be toppled so democracy rules"
The king's cruel act is that he treats his own people like slaves and fools.

Line 6 of stanza 2 (line 14 of the poem) says: "His sword is sharp, his shield shines like gold"
The hero uses a sword and a shield.

According to stanza 2, line 16: "He must be toppled so democracy rules"
The king must be removed so that democracy can rule, and because he is cruel and treats his people like slaves and fools.

Stanza 3, line 4 (line 20 of the poem) states: "But they know already it ends in death."
This line indicates the hero's fate.

The last two lines of the poem are:
"Tragedy shows us the pain in life"
"But let's see a comedy now and laugh!"

a) Tragedies show audiences the pain in life.

b) Audiences like to watch comedies to laugh.