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REAL ENGLISH 8

education medicine parasite postpone

eighteen ninety pipe thirty-four

blade proud priestly precise
monkey pineapple communication pilot

has the sound // as in sky has the sound // as in ray has neither sound

Appreciation

Poems in general have a rhyme, rhythm and regular pattern of sounds like the lines given on
the left. But you will notice that the lines given on the right do not have rhyming lines, repeating
musical phrases or any such common devices of poetry. This kind of poetry is called free verse.
Free verse is the kind of poetry which deliberately avoids the use of rhyme, metre and musical
patterns.

Rhymed verse Free verse

I wandered lonely as a cloud Have you ever seen anything in your life
That floats on high over vales and hills, More wonderful than the way the sun,
When all at once I saw a crowd, Every evening, relaxed and easy, floats
A host, of golden daffodils; toward the horizon
Beside the lake, beneath the trees, And into the clouds or the hills,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Or the rumpled sea, and is gone –

D2 Have a classroom discussion on the purposes and limitations of rhymed verse and free
verse. List your conclusions and read the other poems in this textbook on the basis of your
discussion. You may try to write a few lines of your own.

E Learn by Doing

E1 School survey
A survey is a study or inspection of the general view or opinions of a group of people, based on
a series of questions on a given topic. Conducting a survey means collecting information by
asking people several related questions.

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