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प्रश्न
The cherry tree is a narrative poem. Features that make it a narrative poem are given below. Justify them with proper examples.
Incidents are arranged in sequence.
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उत्तर
“Since I placed my cherry seed in the grass.”
“It was very small, five months child,”
“The young tree struggle, upward thrust”
“Time and the rain Made a miracle from green growing pain……..”
“Six feet high my own dark cherry”
“-a berry. Ripened and jewelled in the sun”
“And next year there were blossoms small”
“That small, the cherry, grown by me.”
The above lines from the poem prove that the incidents are arranged in sequence as the poem is tracking the growth of the cherry tree.
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