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प्रश्न
Based on your understanding of the poem, read the following line and answer the question given below.
My heart was so light
that I sang day and night,
For all nature looked gay.
“You sang, Sir, you say”?
Mention the rhyme scheme employed in the above lines.
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उत्तर
aabb’ is the rhyme scheme.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Strong is she in her faith and belief.
“Persistence is the key to everything,” says she.
How does she deal with the adversities in life?
Don't ever try to saw her pride, her self-respect.
She knows how to thaw you, saw you – so beware!
What do the words thaw and saw mean here?
Based on your understanding of the poem, read the following line and answer the question given below.
At last by starvation and famine made bold,
All dripping with wet, and all trembling with cold,
Why did the cricket drip and tremble?
Based on your understanding of the poem, complete the summary using the phrases given below.
In this narrative poem, the poet brings out the idea that is essential for every creature. He conveys this message to the readers through a story of __________ The ant spends all its summer saving __________. The cricket __________ happily in the summer. He __________ anything for the winter. When winter comes, he is worried that his __________ is empty. So, he seeks the help of the ant to have __________ and a __________ to stay. The cricket was even prepared to repay it in the future. The ant made it clear that ants __________. He also enquired the cricket if it had saved anything when the weather was fine. The cricket answered that it had sung day and night enjoying__________. The ant threw the
cricket out and stated in a stern voice it should dance in the winter season too. In his concluding lines, the poet affirms that this is not __________ but it is true and applicable to __________ also.
‘Some crickets have four legs and some have two’. Elucidate this statement from the poet’s point of view.
And now, if you will set us to our task,
We will serve you four and twenty hours a day!
Do the machines serve us twenty-four hours a day?
And now, if you will set us to our task,
We will serve you four and twenty hours a day!
Rewrite the given lines with the ending ‘365 days a year.'
Read the poem and find the line for the following poetic device or write your own example.
Simile.
Read the given lines and answer the questions given below.
It sat alone.
What happened there is still today unknown.
It is a very mysterious place,
And inside you can tell it has a ton of space,
But at the same time, it is bare to the bone.
- What does ‘It’ refer to?
- Pick out the line that indicates the size of the house?
Read the given lines and answer the questions given below.
It never grows leaves,
Not in the winter, spring, summer, or fall.
It just sits there never getting small or ever-growing tall.
- What does ‘it’ refer to?
- In what way the tree is a mystery?
