(a) What do the scientist feel? (b) Give the rhyme scheme of the above stanza. (c) Give the rhyming word for behind.

Question

Read the following lines from the poem and answer the questions in a sentence or two.

“Scientists say the chemicals In the dust they leave behind, 

Could have started life on the earth Which resulted in mankind.”

(a) What do the scientist feel?

(b) Give the rhyme scheme of the above stanza.

(c) Give the rhyming word for behind.

Answer 1

(a) The scientists feel that the mankind started to emerge in this earth only from the chemicals left behind in the dust caused by the comets, when they fell on the earth.

(b) ‘abcb’ is the rhyme scheme of the above stanza.

(c) The rhyming word for behind is mankind