Question

Weavers, weaving at break of day, Why do you weave a garment so gay? .... Blue as the wing of a halcyon wild, We weave the robes of a new-born child. Weavers, weaving at fall of night, Why do you weave a garment so bright? ……. Like the plumes of a peacock, purple and green, We weave the marriage-veils of a queen. Weavers, weaving solemn and still, What do you weave in the moonlight chill? ….. White as a feather and white as a cloud, We weave a dead man’s funeral shroud. - Sarojini Naidu

Answer the following questions:
1. Pick out the lines that indicate different times of the day. 2. What are the three stages of life does the poem speak of? 3. Complete the sentence: a) The blue colour of the new-born child’s dress is compared to ________________. b) The mood in the poem changes from _________ to _______ (happiness, sadness) 4. Identify the literary device used in the second stanza?​
5. Write the rhyme scheme for the first stanza.
6. Give antonym from the poem for the word “moving”
7. Pick out two rhyming words from third stanza.

Answer 1

packetilike

space here it means a loun