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When the woman turned into a bird, at that time she was wearing a red - coloured
cap on her head. This cap was there on the bird’s head also, but the woman’s
remaining clothes had burned and turned black in colour just like coal.

Stanza 16
And every country schoolboy
Has seen her in the wood,
Where she lives in the trees till this very day,
Boring and boring for food.

country: belonging to the countryside i.e. rural areas

People who live in the countryside, even the small children who go to school, seen
this kind of bird in the woods. They see that she stays there all day and keeps on
digging the wood with her beak, to collect her food. Whenever any child sees this
kind of bird, then his elders tell him this story. They say that the bird used to be a
woman earlier. She was very greedy and so, she was cursed by Saint Peter and
turned into a bird. They get a teaching that they should not be greedy.

Literary Devices in the poem
1. Rhyme Scheme: abcb
2. Alliteration: is the repetition of a consonant sound in two or more close words.
Stanza 1 - that, they, them through - ‗th‘ sound is repeating
Stanza 2 - they, the - ‗th‘ sound is repeating
look, like - ‗l‘ sound is repeating
funny, furry - ‗f‘ sound is repeating
Stanza 3 - they, them- ‗th‘ sound is repeating
yet, you - ‗‗y sound is repeating‘
learn, lesson - ‗l‘ sound is repeating
tell, tale, to - ‗t‘ sound is repeating

Stanza 5 - woman, was – ‗w‘ sound is repeating
Them, the, hearth - ‗th‘ sound is repeating