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3. What does the road through the woods lie under?
4. Why are the animals in the woods unafraid of humans?
5. What are the sounds which can be heard in the woods on late summer evenings?

6. What suggests to the poet that the horse and its rider perfectly knew the lost way through
the woods?
7. Pick fi ve phrases/lines from the poem which tell you that the woods are full of life.
8. Match the animals with their activities in the woods.

A B
1. ring dove a. calls out to its mate
2. badger b. fi lls the pools

3. trout c. moves through the woods
4. otter d. hatches its eggs

5. horse e. scampers around playfully

C. Refl ect and answer.
1. Do you think there is an element of mystery in the poem? How can you tell?
2. Can we say that a woman was riding a horse through the woods? Give reasons for your
answer.

3. Do you think the woods are ‘haunted’? What could be the possible reason behind this
‘haunting’? Explain your answer in a few lines.

Appreciation

Internal Rhyme

You are familiar with the use of rhyming words at the end of the lines in a poem. Now read the
following line:

Weather and rain have undone it again . . .
Notice how the word rain rhymes with again in the same line. This poetic device is called internal
rhyme. There are three types of internal rhymes:
• two or more rhyming words within the same line, as in the example above

• two or more rhyming words within the middle of two separate lines
I wore a shiny new bow upon my head.

I began to grow and it fi t me no more.
• a word at the end of a line rhyming with one or more in the middle of the next line
The sky was a clear, rich, shiny blue

I knew it was true but I stayed inside.
Internal rhymes repeat particular sounds within a line, which enhances the rhythm of the poem.

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