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Read the following stanza. Home they brought her warrior dead She nor swooned, nor uttered a cry: All her maidens, watching, said, ‘She must weep or she will die’. Now answer the following questions1) Who was brought dead? 2) Why did he die? 3) Who was ‘she’? 4) What were her feelings when her husband was brought dead? 5) What did all the women say? 6) Why did she not cry? 7) Why did they think she had to cry? 8) Which word in the above stanza means ‘became unconscious?9) Write the rhyming words.10) What is the rhyming scheme followed in the stanza? |
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Answer» 1) A warrior was brought dead. 2) While fighting with his enemy soldiers he was killed in a war. 3) ‘She’ was the warrior’s wife. 4) When her husband was brought dead she neither fainted nor cried. She was in shock. She stood stock still and she did not she$ even a single tear. 5) All the women who surrounded her said that she had to cry otherwise she would die. 6) She was in a shock. She stood stock still. So she did not shed even a single tear. 7) They believed that all the pain that the widow was keeping pent up inside her would finally have an adverse effect on her health and she would not surprise from the misery. 8) The word ‘swooned’ means unconscious. 9) dead – said – cry – die 10) The rhyming scheme followed in the poem is ABAB. |
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