What is the figure of speech employed in the thirdĥ. What is the rhyme scheme of the above lines?į. What are the rhyming words given in the above lines?Į. If they are handled in aĬareless manner, the results can be fatal. If machines do not harm us on purpose, then what does Operated according to the laws of Physics. The machine asks us to remember that they are Remember, please, the Law by which we live, What is the figure of speech employed in the above Pick out the words that are alliterated in the firstį. What is the rhyme scheme of the above lines?Į. Find out the rhyming words in the above lines.ĭ. Can a machine read? Name such a machine.Ĭ. Race, swim, fly, dive, see, hear, count, read and write.ī. What is the rhyme scheme of the above lines?įigure of speech employed in the last line?Ĭan pull, haul, push, lift, drive, print, plough, weave, heat, light, run, Find out the rhyming words in the above lines. How many hours is “four and twenty hours”? Machines are fed with fuel, they start quickly.Į. One machine can do several men’s task very fast. Yes, machines are more efficient compared with humanīeings. Are machines more efficient than human beings? Find out the rhyming words in the above lines.Ī.
The machines become fit by cutting, filing, assembling and gauging. The machines are designed by casting and hammering. The metals are melted in the blast furnaces. The ores of metals are obtained from the ore-bed and the mine. What are obtained from the ore-bed and the mine?ī. We were cut and filed and tooled and gauged to fit.Ī. We were taken from the ore-bed and the mine, Us to our task, we will serve you sixty five and three hundred days a year!”ġ. They keep running as long as they areĮ) Rewrite the given lines with the ending ‘365 days a year.’ Yes, the machines serve us, for twenty four hours aĭay, as they can never get tired. Unless they are given a task, they will notĭ) Do the machines serve us twenty four hours a day? If we choose to give them a task, they will do it. The second reason is that theĬhoice is given to us. Will perform no matter what they are instructed. Reason is that the machines are expressing a definite truth. Why is the future tense ‘will set’ and ‘will serve’ used both in the ‘if clause’ and in the ‘main clause?’īoth the ‘if ’ clause and the ‘main clause’ for two reasons. We will serve you four and twenty hours a day!Ī) Who does the pronoun ‘you’ refer to here?ī) Whose task is referred to as ‘our task’ here?Ĭ) Open conditional clause is used in the given line. Once Machines are fed with fuel, they start quickly.ġ0. Once Machines are fed with fuel, they take a very long time to start.ī. Which of the following do the machines want to prove from this line?Ī. ‘And a thousandth of an inch to give us play:’
What feelings are evoked in us by the machines in this poem? They have to work as per the instructions of human brain. Machines accept that they are the children of Are machines humble to accept the evolution of human brain? Why? Lift, cass, trucks, printer are few machines used for pulling, pushing, lifting, driving, etc.ħ. Mention a few machines used for pulling, pushing, lifting, driving, printing, ploughing, reading, and writing etc. Mention the names of a few machines that run on water, coal or oil.Ĭoal, oil, include the Floating grain mill, water powered fire alarm, steamĮngines, modern diesel engines and container ships.Ħ. Mention a few machines which are hammered to design.Įngine, the locomotive and iron clad ships were hammered to design.ĥ. What metals are obtained from ores and mines? Iron oreĬopper, lead, gold, and silver are obtained from ores and mines.Ĥ. Machines are the speakers and human beings are theģ. Who are the speakers and listeners of this poem? Who does ‘we’ refer to in first stanza?Ģ.
Answer the following questions briefly.ġ.