English A3: Activity based on Poetic Device

a. Line : Where words come out from the depth of truth.

b. Line: Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection.

c. Line: Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high.

d. Line: Where knowledge is free.

e. Lines: (i) Where the mind is led forward by Thee.
(ii) Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

The repetition of the word 'where' at the beginning of each line denotes the increasing intensity of hope and trust the poet puts in his vision.

The poem is written in free verse without any rhyme scheme.

Synecdoche: 'Country' stands for the people of the country.
Apostrophe: The poet is addressing the Almighty.

(1) Clear stream of reason'. Here reason has been implicitly compared to a clear stream.
(2) Dreary desert sand of dead habit'. Here old habits have been implicitly compared to dreary desert sand.

(1) Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection.' Here 'tireless striving has been given the human quality of stretching its arms.
(2) Dreary desert sand of dead habit. Here 'habit' has been given the quality of death and sand has been called 'dreary'.

(1) Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high.
Repetition of the sound of 'w' and 'h'.
(2) Where the world has not been broken up into fragments.
Repetition of the sound of 'w'.
(3) Where words come out from the depth of truth.
Repetition of the sound of 'w'.
(4) Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection.
Repetition of the sound of 't' and 's'.
(5) Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit Repetition of the sound of 'd'.