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Rain in Summer
Henry Wodsworth Longfellow
How beautiful is the rain!
After the dust and heat,
In the broad and fiery street,
In the narrow lane,
How beautiful is the rain!
How it clatters along the roofs,
Like the tramp of hoofs;
How it gushes and struggles out
From the throat of the overflowing spout!
Across the window-pane
It pours and pours;
And swift and wide,
With a muddy tide,
Like a river down the gutter roars
The rain, the welcome rain!
The sick man from his chamber looks
At the twisted brooks;
He can feel the cool
Breath of each little pool;
His fevered brain
Grows calm again,
And he breathes a blessing on the rain.
From the neighbouring school
Come the boys,
With more than their wonted noise
And commotion;
And down the wet streets
Sail their mimic fleets,
Till the treacherous pool
Engulfs them in its whirling
And turbulent ocean.
Available Answers
- 1.
How have the streets been described before the rains?
- 2.
From where does the rain gush and struggle out?
- 3.
Why does the sick man bless the rain?
- 4.
Why do the boys make more than their usual noise when it rains? What do they do?
- 5.
Mark these statements as true or false. Rewrite the incorrect sentences correctly.
- The rains are welcome after the dust and heat of summer.
- The rains gently trickle down the gutters.
- The raindrops clatter on the rooftops like the stamping of cow hooves.
- The pools created by the rains engulf the little boats floated by the schoolboys.
- 6.
Find words from the poem which mean:
- stomp
- nearby
- curling
- chaotic
- deceptive
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