B. Read the following lines and answer the questions given below:
1. O’er the yellow pebbles dancing
through the flowers and foliage glancing.
Question (a)
How does the river flow?
Answer:
The river flows over the yellow pebbles dancing through the flowers and leaves in a playful manner.
Question (b)
What is meant by ‘foliage’?
Answer:
Foliage means a cluster of leaves and branches of a tree or plant.
2. River; river! Swelling river!
On you rush through rough and smooth.
Question (a).
Why does the poet mention the river to be swelling?
Answer:
The poet mentions the river to be swelling because the river is like a reckless youth.
3. Over rocks, by rose – banks, sweeping
like impetuous youth.
Question (a).
Where does the rose grow?
Answer:
The rose grows by rose-banks
Question (b).
Which stage of men is compared here?
Answer:
The youth of men is compared here.
4. Broad and deep, and still as time Seeming still, yet still in motion.
Question (a).
What is broad and deep?
Answer:
The river is broad and deep.
Question (b).
Is time still?
Answer:
Yes, the time is still.
5. Tending onward to the ocean,
Just like a mortal prime.
Question (a).
Where is the river flowing to?
Answer:
The river is flowing to the ocean.
Question (b).
What does the poet mean by ‘mortal prime’?
Answer:
Mortal prime means a man in the best of his life.
Poetic Devices:
C. Road the following lines and answer the questions.
1. Bright you sparkle on your way;
O’er the yellow pebbles dancing.
Through the flowers and foliage glancing Like a child at play.
Pick out the rhyming words,
Answer:
Dancing and glancing; way and play are the rhyming words.
2. Mention the rhyme scheme of the poem.
Answer:
The rhyme scheme of the poem is abba.
3. Through the flowers and foliage glancing like a child at play.
Mention the figure of speech used in the above line.
Give various other examples from the poem.
The figure of speech used is “simile”
Other examples of the simile in this poem.
Answer:
“Like impetuous youth”
Just like mortal prime
Still as time
Like eternity”.
4. Seeming still, yet still in motion.
Question (a).
Pick out the words in alliteration from the above lines.
Answer:
The alliterated words are seeming, still, and still.
Question (b).
Identify other examples from the poem for alliteration.
Answer:
Other examples for alliteration from this poem:
River, river, little river
Through the flowers and foliage glancing
River, river Swelling river!
On you rush through rough and smooth
Over rocks, by rose – banks, sweeping
River, river! Brimming river!
River, river! Headlong river!
Down you dash into the sea.
The sea that line hath never sounded
The sea that sail hath never rounded.
5. Pick out the examples for epithet from the poem.
Answer:
Swelling river
Brimming river
Mortal prime
impetuous youth.
6. Pick out the examples for imagery from the poem.
Answer:
Through the flowers and foliage glancing.
On you rush through rough and smooth
Louder, faster, brawling leaping
Broad and deep and still
Seeming still, yet still in motion
By rose – banks.
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