CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LITERATURE

CLASS 9

NO MEN ARE FOREIGN

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What is the rhyme scheme of this poem?
A
aabb
B
abcd
C
aabc
D
no rhyme scheme, it is free verse
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Does this poem have a rhyme scheme? Poetry that does not have an obvious rhythm or rhyme is called ‘free verse’.

Detailed explanation-2: -Free verse poetry has no rhyme scheme and no fixed metrical pattern. Often echoing the cadences of natural speech, a free verse poem makes artistic use of sound, imagery, and a wide range of literary devices.

Detailed explanation-3: -Free verse is the name given to poetry that doesn’t use any strict meter or rhyme scheme. Because it has no set meter, poems written in free verse can have lines of any length, from a single word to much longer. William Carlos Williams’s short poem “The Red Wheelbarrow” is written in free verse.

Detailed explanation-4: -Nonmetrical, nonrhyming lines that closely follow the natural rhythms of speech. A regular pattern of sound or rhythm may emerge in free-verse lines, but the poet does not adhere to a metrical plan in their composition.

Detailed explanation-5: -A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song. It is usually referred to by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme; lines designated with the same letter all rhyme with each other.

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