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provide us with their shade, flowers with their beauty and rivers with their coolness
during the hot summers. All of these are the beauties of nature which are like a boon for
us.

Literary devices:

Alliteration: Use of consonant sound at the start of two words which are close in series
(‘s’ in Sprouting Shady, Simple sheep, ‘c’ in cooling covert)

Imagery: Trees giving shade (sprouting shady boon), growing process of daffodils
(daffodils with the green world they live in), Clean river streams (Clear rills)

4. Rich with a sprinkling of fair----------heaven’s brink
The poet further carries on with the description of the more beautiful things present on
earth. such as the beautiful musk roses which have such a nice fragrance. Then he
describes the tales of the mighty warriors who laid their lives for their countries or for
humanity. He says that these beautiful things are the gifts from god for all of us. They
are like a nectar given by god to us and these are those beauties which are immortal
and give us a reason to live on this earth despite having so many sorrows in our life.

Literary devices:
Alliteration: Use of consonant sound at the start of two words which are close in series
(‘h’ in have heard)

Metaphor: Immortal drinks ( beautiful objects of nature are forever like a never ending
portion of a drink)

Imagery: Bushes full of musk roses (sprinkling of fair musk rose blooms), books
describing valour of fighters (grandeur-..mighty dead), god providing us with best things
(pouring from the heaven’s brink).