Explanation:

When all the shadows hover

Over all the starry spheres

And the melancholy darkness

Gently weeps in rainy tears,

What a bliss to press the pillow Of a cottage -chamber bed

And lie listening to the patter Of the soft rain overhead!

Questions.

1. What does the poet listen?

Ans: The poet listens to the patter caused by the sounds of the raindrops on the roof.

2. What are the humid shadows doing in the sphere?

Ans: They are floating in the air.

3. What is the poetic device used in the second line

Ans: The poetic device used is Imagery and Enjambment

4. which of the word is the use of the literary device of onomatopoeia?

Bliss/shadows/Shingles/Patter

5. What does Starry spehere means?

Ans : Starry spheres” refer to the night SKY ABOUNDING in stars.

6. What is bliss according to the poet?

Ans : refers to the happiness of thepoet

7. What weeps in rainy tears?

Ans: The dark clouds in the night sky weep in the form of rainy tears

8. Melancholy darkness is a(simile or transferred Epithet)

9. Who is the poet of these lines?

Ans: Coates Kinney

10. Write the synonym of the word melancholy.

Ans: 1 SADNESS, dejection, despondency. 2 seriousness. 4 gloomy, DESPONDENT, blue, dispirited, SORROWFUL, dismal, doleful, glum, downcast.