Stanard :9 , English ,Poem , A Boy`s song, Worksheet

A BOY`S SONG
Read the first eight lines of the poem ‘A boy’s Song ‘ and answer the following questions

1.Who is speaking in this poem?
2.Where does the gray trout asleep?
3.How are the pools?
4.Who is Billy?
5.Why does Billy always follow the boy?
6.What type of the song the blackbird sing ?
7.What is a ‘ nestling’?
9.Find out any two words that indicating the sounds of birds?
10.Find out the rhyming scheme of the lines


ANSWER
1. The boy
2. River / Pool
3. Bright and deep
4. Boy`s friend / a dog
5. Because he is boy’s friend
6. Latest
7. A young bird that cannot leave the nest
8. Chirp / sings
9. aa ,bb


Read the second eight lines of the poem ‘A boy’s Song ‘and answers the following questions

1. How do mowers mow the grass?
2. What do the boy and the Billy trace?
3. Where does the bee go after collecting the honey?
4. Find out some superlatives?
5. Where do the shadows fall?
6. Why does the boy go to the hazel bank?
7. Find out rhyming words?

ANSWER
1. Cleanly / neatly
2. Bees
3. To the homeward
4. Cleanest, greenest, Steepest, deepest
5. In the hazel bank
6. To collect hazel nuts
7. Cleanest-greenest, Bee-me, Steepest-deepest, Free- me.


Read the third eight lines of the poem ‘A boy’s Song ‘ and answer the following questions
1. Whom do the boy’s drive away?
2. What are the maidens doing?
3. The boy and the Billy do not like one thing. What is it?
4. Write down some favorite places of Billy and the boy would like to go?
5. Find out an example for ‘assonance’?
6. Find out rhyming words

ANSWER
1. The maidens
2. Playing
3. To banter and drive away little maidens
4. Lea, river, meadow
5. Water, over, lea
6. play-hay, well-tell, lea-me