Unit 4 - 4.1 A Thing of Beauty is a Joy For Ever — English STD 10 — Question

Read the poem and write :
(a) the rhyme scheme of lines 1 to 8.
(b) The number of stressed syllables in the line: A thing of beauty is a joy forever;

Write two pairs of rhyming words from the extract:

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases: it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health and quiet breathing.
Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing
A flowery band to bind us to the earth,
Spite of despondence, of the inhuman dearth
Of noble natures, of the gloomy days.
Of all the unhealthy and o'er-darkened ways Made for our searching: yes, in spite of all.
Some shape of beauty moves away the pall
From our dark spirits. Such the sun, the moon, Trees old, and young, sprouting a shady boon For simple sheep; and such are daffodils With the green world they live in; and clear rills That for themselves a cooling covert make 'Gain the hot season: the mid forest brake. Rich with a sprinkling of fair musk-rose blooms:

From the poem pick out the words of old English that mean the words given below:
(1) gift-
(2) the next day -
(3) a protective spot for animals -
(4) a cool shady spot under tall trees -
(5) ferns-
(6) depression -
(7) cover for the dead-
(8) streams-

Read the poem and write the rhyme scheme of: the last stanza/last five lines.

Write down the rhyming words from the stanzas for the following:
(1) fight (2) clash

Find out lines from the poem that are examples of the following figures of speech:

Figures of Speech	Lines
Repetition
Alliteration
Hyperbole

Name and explain the poetic devices used in the following lines:
(a) creeping like a snail
(b) Soldier bearded like the pard
(c) Sighing like furnace
(d) men and women merely players
(e) They have their exits and their entrances
(f) With a woeful ballad

Find the lines from the extract which mean :
extremely poor condition

Find examples of 'Climax' from the extract.

Pick out an example of Antithesis from the extract: