Question Answers For All Chapters – Balbharati English Class 7
In Time of Silver Rain
ENGLISH WORKSHOP
1. Find the pairs of rhyming words used at the end of the lines in the poem.
Answer:
| Rain | heads | wings | cry |
| Again | spreads | sing | sky |
| Plain | spring |
3. If you were to draw a landscape on the basis of this poem, what elements will you show in it ? What colours will you use ?
Answer: If I were to draw a landscape on the basis of this poem, I would show elements like a patch of lush green grass stretching far and wide, small flowers growing all over the plain tossing their heads, brightly coloured butterflies happily fluttering, a rainbow stretching across the sky.
4. The special arrangement of short lines makes you think about every detail. If you write the sentences in the usual manner, it does not have the same effect. For example, the first stanza would be something like ‘The earth puts forth new life again; green grasses grow and flowers lift their heads and the wonder of life spreads all over the plain in time of silver rain.’
Now try the following:
Write one or two sentences about something beautiful, using your own experience or imagination. Then rearrange the words In the sentences In a poetic form. You may write about a beautiful day, a beautiful night, a stream, a crop standing in a field, a graceful bird or animal, etc.
Answer:
- A beautiful night
- The people were enjoying
- When the clouds were making noise and thundering.
- But I was sitting along with no one aside.
- My feelings were at night just like a sea tide.
- It started raining and I cried
- It started raining and I cried
5. Fill in the following blanks with reference to the poem.
‘In time of rain when spring and life are …………, the butterflies lift ………… wings to catch a ………… cry and trees put forth ………… leaves to sing in ………… beneath the sky as ………… boys and girls too ………… singing down the roadway’.
Answer:
In time of rain when rain and life are new, the butterflies lift silken wings to catch a rainbow cry and trees put forth new leaves to sing in joy beneath the sky as passing boys and girls too go singing down the roadway.
6. Think and answer :
a. Is the poet talking about heavy rains in the rainy season or ram that has come after a long time?
Answer: The poet is talking about rain that has come after a long time.
b. Are the boys and girls happy that it is raining?
Answer: Yes, the poet says that the boys and girls are singing as they pass down the roadway in the rain, so they are obviously happy that it is raining.
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