а. How does the river flow?
Ans: The river flows glancing through the flowers and foliage.

b. What is meant by ‘foliage’?
Ans: Foliage is a cluster of leaves, flowers, and branches.

c. What is a pebble?
Ans: A Pebble is usually a small rounded stone found in water bodies like rivers.

d. What is the poetic device employed in the first line.
Ans: Imagery is the poetic device employed in the first line.

e. What is the poetic device employed in the second line.
Ans: Alliteration is the poetic device employed in the second line.

f. Give the rhyming word for ‘dancing’.
Ans: The rhyming word for ‘dancing’ is glancing.

g. Is the river like a child? Why?
Ans: Yes, the river is like a child. The river like a child is bright and sparkling on its way. It dances and plays behind flowers and leaves of trees like a child playing hide and seek.

2. River, river! Swelling river!
On you rush through rough and smooth;

a. Why does the poet mention the river to be swelling?
Ans: There is a lot of water flowing heavily in the river. So the poet mentions the river to be swelling.

b. What are the surfaces the river flows through?
Ans: The surfaces the river flows through are the rough rocks and smooth places like rose banks where the roses grow.

c. What does the word ‘swelling’ indicate?
Ans: The word ‘swelling’ indicates the ebb and flow of the river.

d. Which word is the antonym for ‘rough’?
Ans: The antonym for the word rough is smooth.

3. Over rocks, by rose-banks, sweeping Like impetuous youth.

a. Where does the rose grow?
Ans: The rose grows on the rose banks.

b. Which stage of man is compared here?
Ans: The period of youth is compared here.

c. Where does it spend its y lounger days?
Ans: It spends younger days through rocks and woods.

d. What is sweeping?
Ans: The river is sweeping.

e. Identify the figure of speech.
Ans: The simile is the figure of speech.

f. What is meant by ‘impetuous’?
Ans: ‘Impetuous’ means reckless or hasty.

g. Why is the river compared to an ‘impetuous youth’?
Ans: The river is compared to an impetuous youth because of its reckless and hasty movements over rocks and rose-banks.

4. Broad and deep, and still as time;
Seeming still, yet still in motion,

a. What is broad and deep?
Ans: The river is broad and deep.

b. Is time still?
Ans: No, the time is not still, yet it seems to be still.

c. Which words describe the river?
Ans: Broad, deep, and still describe the river.

d. What is the figure of speech in the second line?
Ans: The figure of speech is alliteration.

e. Explain ‘still in motion’.
Ans: Though the river seems to be quiet and motionless, it is always in motion.

5. Tending onward to the ocean,
   Just like a mortal prime.

a. Where is the river flowing to?
Ans: The river is flowing to the ocean.

b. What does the poet mean by ‘ mortal Prime’?
Ans: By the term ‘Mortal prime’, the poet means the man is in the best age of his life.

c. Explain ‘Tending’.
Ans: ‘Tending’ here means inclining towards a habitual action.

d. What is the figure of speech employed here?
Ans: The figure of speech is a simile.

6. River, river, little river!
   Bright you sparkle on your way;

a. What is the river?
Ans: A river is a small little stream.

b. Where is the river born?
Ans: The river is born in the mountains.

c. Why is it called ‘little river’?
Ans: It is called a Tittle river’ because of its size.

d. Give the example for epithet in the above lines.
Ans: Tittle river’ is the example for an epithet in the above lines.

2. Louder, faster, brawling, leaping,

a. What is meant by ‘brawling’?
Ans: ‘Brawling’ is a noisy quarrel.

b. What is louder and faster?
Ans: The river’s movement is louder and faster.

3. River, river! Headlong river!
Down you dash into the sea,

a. Why is the river said to be ‘headlong’?
Ans: The river is said to be ‘headlong’ because of its reckless movement.

b. Pick out the alliterated words.
Ans: The alliterated words are ‘down’ and ‘dash’.

c. Where does the headlong river rush to?
Ans: The headlong river rush towards the sea.

4. Sea that line hath never sounded,
    Sea that sail hath never rounded,
  Like eternity.

a. What is the figure of speech in the above lines?
Ans: Anaphora is the figure of speech in the above lines.

b. Pick out the rhyming words.
Ans: The rhyming words are sounded and rounded

c. What is the figure of speech in the second line?
Ans: The figure of speech is alliteration.

d. Explain ‘hath never rounded’.
Ans: No ship has completely gone around the sea to be compared to eternity.

e. What is meant by ‘hath’?
Ans: ‘hath’ is the old English word for ‘has’.

f. What do the river and the sea remind the poet of?
Ans: The river is like transient human life. The sea reminds the poet of eternity.

g. How does the sea remind you of eternity?
Ans: Sea is endless and hence it cannot be measured. We do not know where it begins from and where it would end. Hence it reminds me of eternity.

h. What happens to the river when it approaches the ocean?
Ans: It seems wider and seems even slower when it approaches the ocean.

i.When does a river grow and vanish?
Ans: As it approaches the ocean the river grows and then vanishes into the ocean.

5. Bright you sparkle on your way;
   O’er the yellow pebbles dancing,
   Through the flowers and foliage glancing,
   Like a child at play.
  Pick out the rhyming words.
Ans: The rhyming words are: Way, play; dancing, glancing.

2. River, river, little river! a
    Bright you sparkle on your way; b
    O’er the yellow pebbles dancing, c
    Through the flowers and foliage glancing, c
    Like a child at play. b

River, river! swelling river! a
    On you rush through rough and smooth; b
    Louder, faster, brawling, leaping, c
    Over rocks, by rose-banks, sweeping c
    Like impetuous youth. b

    River, river! Brimming river! a
    Broad and deep, and still as time; b
   Seeming still, yet still in motion, c
   Tending onward to the ocean, c
   Just like mortal prime. b

   River, river! Headlong river! a
   Down you dash into the sea, b
   Sea that line hath never sounded, c
   Sea that sail hath never rounded, c
   Like eternity. b

a. Mention the rhyme scheme of the poem.
Ans: The rhyme scheme of the poem is a b c c b.

3. Through the flowers and foliage glancing,
     Like a child at play.
a. Mention the figure of speech used in the above lines. Give various other examples from the poem.
Alliteration is the figure of speech used in the above line.
Various other examples from the poem are:-

1. On you rush through rough and smooth
2. Over rocks, by rose-banks
3. Seeming still, yet still in motion
4. Tending onward to the ocean
5. Down you dash into the sea
6. Sea that line hath never sounded
7. Sea that sail hath never rounded

4. Seeming still, yet still in motion
(a) Pick out the words in alliteration from the above line.
Ans: Seeming still

(b) Identify other examples from the poem for alliteration.
Other examples from the poem are:-

1. On you rush through rough and smooth
2. Over rocks, by rose-banks
3. Seeming still, yet still in motion
4. Tending onward to the ocean
5. Down you dash into the sea
6. Sea that line hath never sounded
7. Sea that sail hath never rounded

5. Pick out the examples for epithets from the poem.
Ans:
Little river!
Swelling river!
Brimming river!
Headlong river!

6. Pick out the examples for imagery from the poem.
Ans:
Yellow pebbles
dancing Brawling, leaping
dash into the sea