Question

Given below are lines from the poem ‘What are Heavy?’ by Christina Rossetti.
What are heavy? Sea-sand and sorrow: What are brief? Today and tomorrow: What are frail? Spring blossoms and youth: What are deep? The ocean and truth.
(i) Identify and write the number of lines and stanzas in the poem.
(ii) Identify and write its rhyme scheme.
(iii) Write a word from the poem which means the same as ‘short-
lived’.

Answer 1

Answer:

What are heavy? Sea-sand and sorrow;

What are brief? Today and tomorrow;

What are frail? Spring blossoms and youth;

What are deep? The ocean and truth.

Explanation:

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