ENGLISH WORKSHOP
1. Answer the following questions.
(a) How many stanzas are there in the poem?
- There are three stanzas in the poem.
(b) How many lines are there in the poem?
- The poem has twelve lines in total.
(c) List the rhyming words in each stanza.
- First stanza: light – night, free – sea
- Second stanza: call – all, drives – lives
- Third stanza: grove – love, glee – sea
2. Verify the rhyme scheme of the poem.
- The rhyme scheme of each stanza is AABB.
3. What do the following expressions refer to?
(a) Leaping wealth of the tide: The fish in the sea.
(b) Kings of the sea: The fishermen.
(c) At the fall of the sun: Evening or sunset.
(d) The edge of the verge: The horizon where the sky meets the sea.
4. Match the following:
| Column A | Column B |
|---|---|
| (a) The wind | (4) Child |
| (b) Dawn | (5) Mother holding her child |
| (c) Sea | (3) Mother |
| (d) Cloud | (1) Brother |
| (e) Waves | (2) Comrades |
5. Find and write the lines in the poem that refer to –
(a) Early morning:
- “Rise, brothers, rise; the wakening skies pray to the morning light.”
(b) Evening:
- “What though we toss at the fall of the sun where the hand of the sea-god drives?”
(c) Full moon light:
- “And sweet are the sands at the full o’ the moon with the sound of the voices we love.”
6. Write the lines that show that the fishermen are not afraid of the sea or of drowning.
- “He who holds the storm by the hair, will hide in his breast our lives.”
7. In the last stanza, two lines refer to a landscape, and two lines refer to a seascape. Copy them correctly.
Landscape: “Sweet is the shade of the coconut glade, and the scent of the mango grove.”
Seascape: “But sweeter, O brothers, the kiss of the spray and the dance of the wild foam’s glee.”
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