Comprehension Passage
Directions: Read the poem carefully and answer the questions:
Extract 1:
1. Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
2. In the forests of the night;
3. What immortal hand or eye,
4. Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
Extract 2:
5. In what distant deeps or skies.
6. Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
7. On what wings dare he aspire?
8. What the hand, dare seize the fire?
Extract 3:
9. And what shoulder, & what art,
10. Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
11. And when thy heart began to beat,
12. What dread hand? & what dread feet?
Extract 4:
13. When the stars threw down their spears
14. And water’d heaven with their tears:
15. Did he smile his work to see?
16. Did he who made the Lamb make thee?
The rhyme scheme of extract 2 is:
1
ABBA
2
AABB
3
ABAA
4
AAAB
5
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