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प्रश्न
Complete the table by identifying lines, against the poetic devices from the poem.
| Poetic lines | Poetic Devices/Figures of Speech |
| It takes much time to kill a tree. | |
| The bleeding bark will heal. | |
| Out of the anchoring earth |
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उत्तर
| Poetic lines | Poetic Devices/Figures of Speech |
| It takes much time to kill a tree. | Alliteration (takes,time,to, tree) |
| The bleeding bark will heal. | Personification |
| Out of the anchoring earth | Metaphor (''root'' is indirectly compared to ''anchor'') |
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संबंधित प्रश्न
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep
Explain miles to go before I sleep.
Read the following lines from the poem and answer the question that follow.
I was angry with my friend.
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe.
I told it not, my wrath did grow.
Pick out the rhyming words.
Read the following lines from the poem and answer the question that follow.
And I watered it in fears
Night and morning with my tears;
What figure of speech is used in ‘watered it in fears’?
It takes much time to kill a tree,
Not a simple jab of the knife Will do it.
Why does it take much time to kill a tree?
It has grown Slowly consuming the earth,
Rising out of it, feeding Upon its crust, absorbing.
How has the tree grown?
The root is to be pulled out
Out of the anchoring earth;
Why should the root be pulled out?
What are the life sources needed for a tree to grow?
O’er the yellow pebbles dancing,
Through the flowers and foliage glancing.
What is meant by ‘foliage’?
Over rocks, by rose-banks, sweeping
Like impetuous youth.
Which stage of man is compared here?
If one should come too close to earth
The atmosphere will shake,
With shock wave reaching to the ground
Causing the land to quake.
Mention the rhyme scheme of the stanza.
