Question

Read the following extracts carefully and answer the questions that follow.



A. When the humid shadows hover

Over all the starry spheres

And the melancholy darkness

Gently weeps in rainy tears,

What a bliss to press the pillow

Of a cottage-chamber bed

And lie listening to the patter

Of the soft rain overhead!

(a) What does the phrase ―humid shadows‖ refer to?

(b) What are ―starry spheres‖?

(c) Why does the poet call the darkness melancholy?​

Answer 1

Answer:

gently weeps in rainy tears