Question

1. I was angry with my friend;
I told my wrath, my wrath did end,
I was angry with my foe
I told it not, my wrath did grow.

i. Pick out the rhyming words.

ii. What is the rhyme scheme of
the stanza?

iii. Identify the figure of speech in
the title of the poem.

2. And I watered it in fears
Night and morning with my tears,

i. What figure of speech is used
in 'watered it in fears?​

Answer 1

Answer:

(i) rhyming words- friend,end and foe,grow

(ii) rhyme scheme-abab

Answer 2

1) i. The rhyming words that can be seen from 1. is friend-end and foe-grow.

ii. The rhyming scheme that is being seen is aa bb.

iii. The figure of speech in the title of the poem is Antithesis, which can be seen here in the first few lines. There is a juxtaposition in expressing the duality of the poet’s emotion.

2) The figure of speech used in ‘watered it in fears’ is Metaphor. Here a close comparison is made between the objects.

Explanation:

These lines are taken from William Blake’s “A Poison Tree”. The poet has beautifully illustrated the poem with many literary devices. He also made the poem into a quatrain with ending rhyming couplets.