CLASS 10
FIRE AND ICE
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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9
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Detailed explanation-1: -The poem is written in a single nine-line stanza, which greatly narrows in the last two lines. The poem’s meter is an irregular mix of iambic tetrameter and dimeter, and the rhyme scheme (which is ABA ABC BCB) suggests but departs from the rigorous pattern of Dante’s terza rima.
Detailed explanation-2: -Fire and Ice is a nine-line single stanza rhyming poem with a strong metrical base of iambic tetrameter and dimeter. The rhyme scheme is: aba abc bcb with ice repeated twice and also contained within twice/suffice.
Detailed explanation-3: -Stanza 1. The poet tries to explain that the world will end in two ways either by ice or by fire. One set of people believes that someday the Earth’s crust will be heated up and it would lead to a fire destroying the earth’s surface.
Detailed explanation-4: -Personification: Personification is to give human qualities to inanimate objects. In this poem, “Fire” and “Ice” are capable of destruction. Therefore, the poet personifies fire and ice by giving them a mind which is capable of destroying almost anything.
Detailed explanation-5: -Answer: The rhyme scheme of the poem is-a b a a b c b c b This rhyme scheme helps in bringing out the contrasting ideas of ‘fire’ and ‘ice’ presented in the poem.