There is a singer everyone has heard,
Loud, a mid-summer and a mid-wood bird,
Who makes the solid tree trunks sound again.
He says that leaves are old and that for flowers
5 Mid-summer is to spring as one to ten.
He says the early petal-fall is past
When pear and cherry bloom went down in showers
On sunny days a moment overcast;
And comes that other fall we name the fall.
10 He says the highway dust is over all.
The bird would cease and be as other birds
But that he knows in singing not to sing.
The question that he frame

Question

There is a singer everyone has heard,
    	Loud, a mid-summer and a mid-wood bird,
    	Who makes the solid tree trunks sound again.
    	He says that leaves are old and that for flowers
5   	Mid-summer is to spring as one to ten.
    	He says the early petal-fall is past
    	When pear and cherry bloom went down in showers
    	On sunny days a moment overcast;
    	And comes that other fall we name the fall.
10    	He says the highway dust is over all.
   	The bird would cease and be as other birds
    	But that he knows in singing not to sing.
    	The question that he frame

anonymous · Answer

How do the first three lines help develop the poem?

    they describe the tone of the poem.
    they introduce the theme.
    they explain the conflict of the poem.
    they introduce the main subject. thats the answerrs