Question 2 - Fire and Ice - First Flight - Poems (Literature) - English Class 10

Read the given extract and answer the questions-

Extract:

But if it had to perish twice,

 I think I know enough of hate

 To say

 that for destruction 

ice Is also great

(Fire and Ice)

Question(i)  

What is the rhyme scheme of the extract?

Answer:

As written by the student:

The extract has an ABBA rhyme scheme.

Step-by-step explanation:

•  A rhyme scheme is how we describe the way a poem rhymes.
•  To find the rhyme scheme, we look at the last words of each line and give them a letter based on how they sound.
•  For example, if two words sound the same, they get the same letter. If they sound different
•   If they sound different, they get different letters.
•  In this extract, the words "twice", "ice", "great" and "suffice" all have the same sound. They rhyme with each other.
•  So we give them the letter A and write it next to each line that ends with them.
•  The words "hate" and "late" have a different sound. They rhyme with each other, but not with the A words.
•  So we give them the letter B and write it next to each line that ends with them.
•  The rhyme scheme of the extract is ABBA, as shown below:

But if it had to perish twice, A

I think I know enough of hate B

To say that for destruction ice A

Is also great A

Question (ii)

What does the use of the word "perish" suggest?

Answer: