(a) What is the advice given to new comers to the city of ‘Never-Are-Satisfied’? (b) Pick out the alliterated words in the first line.

Question

Read the following lines from the poem and answer the questions given below:

“And so it were wisest to keep our feet, 

From wandering into Complaining Street; 

And never to growl, whatever we do, 

Lest we be mistaken for Grumblers, too.”

(a) What is the advice given to new comers to the city of ‘Never-Are-Satisfied’? 

(b) Pick out the alliterated words in the first line. 

(c) What are the rhyming words for do and feet? 

(d) What is the rhyme scheme followed? 

(e) What will happen if we enter Complaining Street?

Answer 1

(a) Any new comers to the ‘Never-are-Satisfied’ city are advised not to enter into Complaining Street. 

(b) The alliterated words in the first line are ‘were wisest’. 

(c) The rhyming word for do is too and for feet it is street. 

(d) The rhyme scheme followed is ‘aabb’ pattern. 

(e) If we enter Complaining Street, we will be mistaken to be Grumblers.