Question

When I ask you to listen to me and you start giving me advice, you have not done what I asked. When I ask you to listen to me and you begin to tell me why I shouldn’t feel that way, you are trampling on my feelings. When I ask you to listen to me and you feel you have to do something to solve my problem, you have failed me, strange as that may seem.
1. What may be the age of the poet/speaker of this poem?
2. What according to the poet shouldn’t be done before listening?
3. Write the Rhyme scheme of the poem.
4. What may seem strange?
5. What would fail the speaker?​

Answer 1

1) The speaker in the poem could be seven to eight years of age

2) When I ask you to listen to me and you start giving me advice, you have not done what I asked. When I ask you to listen to me and you begin to tell me why I shouldn’t feel that way, you are trampling on my feelings

3) There are many different types of rhymes that poets use in their work: internal rhymes, slant rhymes, eye rhymes, identical rhymes, and more. One of the most common ways to write a rhyming poem is to use a rhyme scheme composed of shared vowel sounds or consonants.