Al Karma Language School

English Department
Pre
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A) Answer the following questions:

1- Sir Cecil Spring Rice wrote this poem intending at directing our views towards Nature. Illustrate.

Man's work is not as important as that of the elements of Nature because he will die one

day, but the elements of nature won’t as without them there is no life. They build the earth

and help us to live on it.

2- How many stanzas does the poem contain? what is its rhyme scheme?

The poem contains five stanzas. The rhyme scheme is aaaa, bbbb, cccc, dddd, eee.

3- Recite the lines that reflect the work of the rain in the nature.

"I am busy,” said the rain.

"When I fall it's not in vain.

Wait and you will see the grain.

“I am busy," said the rain.

4- Mention the figures of speech in the following stanza:

I am busy," said the air.

"Blowing here and blowing there,

 Up and down and everywhere,

"I am busy," said the air.

‘ I am busy,’ said the air.

*Personification: ‘ I am busy,’ said the air.

The poet is giving the air the human ability to talk (personifies the air) so that it can describe its

job.

* Contrast: "here" and "there"

"up" and "down"

5- Paraphrase the following lines:

"I am busy," said the sun.

"All my planets, every one,

Know my work is never done,

"I am busy," said the sun,

The sun has an important job to do and all the planets know this as they journey around the sun. Its job

is endless (never finished), if it were, nothing would exist.

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