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प्रश्न
Note the words ‘rush’, ‘bush’, ‘brush’. Their spellings look similar, but the pronunciation of the words is different. It is known as eye rhyme.
Find examples of ‘eye rhymes’ and true rhymes from other sources.
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उत्तर
| Eye Rhymes | True Rhymes | |
| i. | brood, blood | pray, may |
| ii. | prove, love | care, dare |
| iii. | Cough, bough | leather, weather |
| iv. | alone, gone | rows, slow |
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संबंधित प्रश्न
- What games did you play when you were a small child - in pre-primary or primary school?
- Who were your playmates?
- What do you remember best from that time?
Is the poet a grown-up person or a child?
Pick out from the first stanza, four expressions where the poet pleads with the butterfly not to go away.
Say WHO -
Reminds the poet of his childhood ______.
Say WHO -
Is afraid to touch the butterfly ______.
Say WHO -
Is like a hunter ______.
Say WHO -
Is the poet’s sister ______.
Sometimes, the normal word order is changed in the lines of a poem, to emphasise something or to make the lines sound better. This change in word order is called ‘inversion’.
Can you find examples of inversion in this poem? Write them down. Then rewrite the lines using regular word order and compare the effect.
Example:
- A little longer stay in sight!
- Stay in sight a little longer.
The rhyme scheme of the first stanza is a a b b c b c c b.
Now write the rhyming words in the second stanza.
Use the following format to write your own poem.
noun
noun + verb
noun + verb + adverb
determiner/adjective + noun + verb + adverb
exclamation
noun + verb
Use the following format to write your own poem.
adjective 1
adjective 2
adjective 3
adjective 4
adjective 5
noun
Use the following format to write your own poem.
verb
verb + adverb
verb + adverb + adverb
noun + verb + adverb + adverb
determiner/adjective + noun + verb + adverb + adverb
question (simple/rhetorical)
