Read the following stanza. My home is a house Near a wood (I’d li

1.	Read the following stanza. My home is a house Near a wood (I’d live in a street If I could!) The lanes are so quiet, Oh, dear! I do wish that someone Lived near. Now answer the following questions: a) Who is speaking in this stanza? b) Where is the speaker’s house? c) Where does he want to live? d) How are the lanes? e) Why are the lanes so quiet? f) What does the speaker wish? g) Which word in the stanza means “an area of trees smaller than a forest”? h) Who does the speaker address as ‘dear’? i) “I wish that someone lived near” – What do you understand from this sentence? j) Pick out the rhyming words from the stanza.
Answer» a) The country child is speaking in the stanza. b) The speaker’s house is near a wood. c) The speaker (The country child) wants to live in a street in the town. d) The lanes in his village are so quiet. e) Because there are a few people in the village. f) The speaker wishes that someone lives near his house. g) ‘wood’ h) The speaker addresses the readers as ‘dear’. i) In the country very few people live and there are no one to play with him. So he wishes someone to live in his neighbour hood. j) wood …. could ; dear …. near.

Read the following stanza. My home is a house Near a wood (I’d live in a street If I could!) The lanes are so quiet, Oh, dear! I do wish that someone Lived near. Now answer the following questions: a) Who is speaking in this stanza? b) Where is the speaker’s house? c) Where does he want to live? d) How are the lanes? e) Why are the lanes so quiet? f) What does the speaker wish? g) Which word in the stanza means “an area of trees smaller than a forest”? h) Who does the speaker address as ‘dear’? i) “I wish that someone lived near” – What do you understand from this sentence? j) Pick out the rhyming words from the stanza.

Answer»

a) The country child is speaking in the stanza.

b) The speaker’s house is near a wood.

c) The speaker (The country child) wants to live in a street in the town.

d) The lanes in his village are so quiet.

e) Because there are a few people in the village.

f) The speaker wishes that someone lives near his house.

g) ‘wood’

h) The speaker addresses the readers as ‘dear’.

i) In the country very few people live and there are no one to play with him.

So he wishes someone to live in his neighbour hood.

j) wood …. could ; dear …. near.