Question

Read the following extracts carefully and answer the questions that follow.
Now in memory comes my mother,
As she used, in years agone,
To regard the darling dreamers
Ere she left them till the dawn:
O! I see her leaning o’er me,
As I list to this refrain
Which is played upon the shingles
By the patter of the rain
(a) Which sound is the poet listening to?
(b) The sound reminds the poet of ---
(c) What do ‘darling dreamers’ refer to?
(d) Find the word from the extract that means the same as ‘a short part of a song or poem that is repeated’.

Answer 1

Answer:

a)the poet is listening to the soft pattering sound of the rain drops on the roof.

b)the sound reminds the poet of her mother who was dead when the poet was young.

c)darling dreamers refer to the happy moments when poet's mother help him to sleep and to have sweet dreams.

d)the word that describe this meaning is 'refrain'.