A sonnet is a poem of fourteen lines. Usually a sonnet has a rhyme sch

1.	A sonnet is a poem of fourteen lines. Usually a sonnet has a rhyme scheme. Is this poem a sonnet? Check whether this poem has a rhyme scheme or not.
Answer» The poem is not a sonnet. There is no rhyme scheme. Note : Imagine a boy in your classroom, by name Shashi, is unable to answer even a single question. The teacher gets angry. In this anger, if the teacher says, ‘Shashi, you’ re the Einstein of this class,” does the teacher really mean what he says? or does he mean the opposite? Such expressions which say the opposite of what they really mean are examples of irony. Read the second stanza carefully. Do you find any expressions of irony in it? The expression of irony in the poem is as follows : (2nd Stannza). A man who fells a tree makes people watch, for glory seems to crowd upon the axe.

A sonnet is a poem of fourteen lines. Usually a sonnet has a rhyme scheme. Is this poem a sonnet? Check whether this poem has a rhyme scheme or not.

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The poem is not a sonnet. There is no rhyme scheme.

Note : Imagine a boy in your classroom, by name Shashi, is unable to answer even a single question. The teacher gets angry. In this anger, if the teacher says, ‘Shashi, you’ re the Einstein of this class,” does the teacher really mean what he says? or does he mean the opposite? Such expressions which say the opposite of what they really mean are examples of irony. Read the second stanza carefully.

Do you find any expressions of irony in it? The expression of irony in the poem is as follows : (2nd Stannza). A man who fells a tree makes people watch, for glory seems to crowd upon the axe.

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