THE CROW - KCSE ENGLISH POETRY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

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THE CROW - KCSE ENGLISH POETRY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Read the following poem carefully and answer all the questions that follow.
Crows on the wing!
What grace as they swim
Rising and driving 
Like fish in the billows

In the willowy air
Or softly as feathers
Franboken pillows

Crows on the wing
What a symphony sings
The wind in their wings
As they swoop as the rise
To the sea to the skies
As they float in the light 
(Barnabas J. Ramon Fortune)

Questions 

• a. Describe the rhyme scheme of the poem (2mks)
• b. Apart from rhyme, identify two sound patterns evident in the poem. (2mk)
• c. Which word would you stress in the first two lines of the poem and why? (2mks)

Answers

a)  

• i) a b a c d cc a ee f f g – Irregular hence unpredictable
• ii) Alliteration – symphony and sings sea and skies (mark for simbilance also)
• iii) Crows, wing grace, swim – 1mk
  Because they are content words

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