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in Class 9 by kratos

Read the following stanzas given below and answer the questions that follow each:

I lay in sorrow, deep distressed;

My grief a proud man heard;

His looks were cold, he gave me gold,

But not a kindly word.

My sorrow passed–I paid him back

The gold he gave to me;

Then stood ***** and spoke my thanks

And blessed his charity.

(i) Write name of the poem from which the above stanza has been selected. Who is the poet of the poem?

(ii) Which words rhyme with each other in the above stanza?

(iii) How did a proud man help the poet?

(iv) What did the poet do when his sorrow passed?

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by kratos
 
Best answer

(i) The name of the poem is Sympathy’. Charles Mackay is the poet of the poem.

(ii) Heard rhyme with word.

(iii) The proud man helped the poet by giving him gold (money).

(iv) When his sorrow passed, he paid him back his money.

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