Identify words that signify positivity and negativity in the poem:

Identify the rhyme scheme in the given stanza:

I leant upon a coppice gate

When Frost was spectre-grey,

And Winter's dregs made desolate

The weakening eye of day.

The tangled bine-stems scored the sky

Like strings of broken lyres,

And all mankind that haunted nigh

Had sought their household fires.

Figures of speech

a) Identify the Simile in the poem and explain.

b) Identify and explain an alliteration.

c) What is a metaphor? The poem has several metaphors. One has been done as an example. Find the others and explain them.

Compose a 10 line poem bringing out your own optimism while facing the New Year / century.

As Thomas Hardy, write a diary entry about how the song of the thrush changed your thoughts, in about 80-100 words.