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Fog


                                               Question and Answers


                    1. What does Sandburg think the fog is like?
                    Ans- Sandburg thinks the fog is like a cat that comes silently so that no one can sense
                    it arrival.
                    2. How does the fog come?

                    Ans- As per the poet the fog comes very silently like a cat.

                    3. What does ‘it’ in the third line refer to?
                    Ans- ‘It’ refers to the fog

                    4. Does the poet actually say that the fog is like a cat? Find three things that tell
                    us that the fog is like a cat.

                    Ans- The three things that tell us that the fog is like a cat are as follows:

                         The fog comes on its little cat feet: This means that the fog enters silently just
                          like cat.
                         It sits looking over harbour and city: The fog is compared to cat as cats also
                          like to sit and look here and there and fog is also looking while it sits over the
                          city.
                         On silent haunches and then moves on: The fog sits on her bended legs just like
                          cat and then moves away very quickly and silently, just like a cat.



                    5. Does this poem have a rhyme scheme? Poetry that does not have and obvious
                    rhythm or rhyme is called ‘free verse’.
                    Ans- There is no rhyme scheme in the poem. It has neither internal nor external rhyme
                    scheme. Hence, we can say that it is in free verse.
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