Question

Faster than fairies,faster than witches,

Bridges and houses,hedges and ditches;

And charging along like troops in a battle

All through the meadows the horses and cattle:

All of the sights of the hills and plain

Fly as thick as driving rain;

And ever again in the wink of an eye,

painted stations whistle by.

1) Pick out two visual images from the first line (1)

2)What is as thick as driving rain? (1)

3) How does the train move? (1)

4) Pick out an auditory image from the lines (1)

5) What is rhyme scheme of the stanza ? (1)

6) Where does the train move? How do you know it ? (2)

7) Is the Train running very fast?Which expression

suggest amazing speed of the train? (2)

8) Pick out two examples of simile from the lines? (2)

9) pick out two rhyming pairs from the lines? (2)

10) What does the expression driving rain mean? (2)​

Answer 1

Answer:

1. fairies and witches
2. rain
3. trains move on painted station by whistling.
4. nature is an....
5. abcd
6. the train move in the rain . We know through the whistling.
7. yes it is moving fast as poet said that again wink of an eye .
8. bridges and hidges, like troop of in a battle
9. witches and ditches , cattle and battle
10. means driving in rain

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Answer 2

The verse has been taken from the poem 'From a Railway Carriage', written by R.L. Stevenson.

Answers.

1. Fairies and witches are two visual images that are used by the poet in the first line.

2. Poet of the poem compares flies as thick as driving rain.

3. The train is moving at a very fast speed as he compared the speed of the train with the wink of an eye.

4. whistle is an auditory image from the above lines.

5. The rhyme scheme of the poem ' From the railway carriage' is AABB pattern.

6. Poet says that the train travelled past many bridges and was also able to see many houses on the way. There were also narrow channels of water along the side.

7. Yes, the train is running at a very fast speed as he compared the speed of the train with the wink of an eye.

8. The two examples of simile are as follows:

• Charging along like troops in a battle.

• Fly as thick as driving rain.

9. Two rhyming pairs from the lines are;

• Witches - Ditches

• Battle - Cattle

• Plain - Rain

10. The expression ' driving rain ' means that raindrops with the speed falling during a heavy storm.

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