Rock a by lady notes

The Rock-a-By Lady from Hushaby Street

Vocabulary:

1. creeping: moving quietly

2. tiny and fleet: very short

3. misty gleams: hazy shine

4. beams: rays/shafts of light

5. winging: flying

6. weary: very tired

7) fleet – rapid

8) wee- small

9) gleam- twinkle

Answer the following questions:

 Q1. How does the Rock-a-By Lady come from Hushaby Street?

ANS. The Rock-a-By Lady comes stealing and creeping from Hushaby Street.

Q2. What do the poppies have in them?

 ANS . The poppies have tiny and fleet dreams in them.

3. When will the Rock-a-By Lady bring poppies for the child?

 ANS . The Rock-a-By Lady will bring poppies when she finds the child sleeping.

 Q4. What will the child dream of?

 ANS . The child will dream of a beautiful drum, a big sugar-plum, banging popguns, humming tin tops, a blowing trumpet, laughing and singing dollies, boats floating on silvery streams, the stars playing peek-a-boo with their own misty gleams, the beaming Mother Moon and the winging fairies.

Q5.  Describe the rock-a-by lady.

Ans. The Rock-a-By Lady creeps into people’s houses at night. She wears poppies that hang from her head to her feet. Each poppy carries a tiny dream. She brings these poppies to children when she finds them sleeping.

Q6.Describe the dreams in stanza three.

Ans. Each poppy that the Rock-a-By Lady carries, contains a tiny dream. These dreams are described eloquently in stanza 3. Dolls peep out of the dreams laughing and singing while boats float on silvery streams. The stars play peek-a-boo while fairies fly merrily near Mother Moon who beams at them happily.

Q7. She bringeth her poppies to you, my sweet, when she findeth you sleeping! Explain.

Ans. The Rock-a-By Lady wears poppies that hang from her head to her feet. Each poppy contains a tiny, beautiful dream. She gifts these poppies to children when she finds them sleeping that they may have sweet dreams while they sleep.

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1) Where are the poppies?

ANS.The poppies are hanging from head to foot on the Rock-a-by Lady.

2) What do the poppies contain?

ANS. The poppies contain tiny and fleet dreams.

Q-3 of text book…pg. 67

1.Personification

* Stars – given the human quality of playing

peek-a-boo

* Mother Moon – given the human quality of

beaming

2.Alliteration – silvery streams (repetition of the letter‘s’ for poetic effect)

Mother Moon(repetition of the letter‘m’ for poetic effect)

3.Metaphor- dreams are indirectly compared to windows

4. repetition- up, up and up are the words repeated

for poetic effect.

Q- 4 of text book what the term ‘lullaby’ means.

Ans. A lullaby is a soothing song sung to a small

child or infant so that it may sleep well. The lyrics

are generally repetitive.