Read the given extracts and answer the questions that follow:
Or is it some more humble lay,
Familiar matter of to-day?
Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain,
that has been, and may be again?
Paraphrase: It is quite possible that her song is related to some ordinary and unimportant matters of day-to-day life. It is quite possible that in her song she is describing some natural calamity, loss or pain that happened in the past and may happen again in future.
(a) Explain: ‘Or is it some more humble lay’.
(b) What can be ‘some natural sorrow?’
(c) What is the rhyme-scheme of the given lines?
(a) The reaper’s song may be about some ordinary and unimportant things.
(b) The ‘natural sorrow’ can be some natural calamity or disaster.
(c) The rhyme-scheme of the lines is aa, bb.