Question

3. Identify the phrases and lines that indicate distance between father and son.
4. Does the poem have a consistent rhyme scheme?

Answer 1

Ans 3: The phrases and lines that indicate the distance between both of them are: ‘I do not understand this child, Though we have lived together now, In the same house for years.’ ‘He speaks: I cannot understand Myself, why anger grows from grief.’ ‘Yet what he loves I cannot share’ ‘I know Nothing of him’ and ‘Silence surrounds us’.

Ans 4: The poem has a consistent rhyme scheme with an open verse format. The short sentences are juxtaposed with longer sentences.

Answer 2

Answer:

the phrases and lines that indicate distance between father and son. the poem have a consistent rhyme scheme