Reading Comprehension Poem

 


 

THE PIGTAIL   

                                                                                                 

There lived a sage in days of yore,

And he a handsome pigtail wore;

But wondered much and sorrowed more

     4     Because it hung behind him.

 

          He mused upon this curious case,

And swore he'd change the pigtail's place

          And have it hanging at his face,

8      Not daggling there behind him.

 

Says he, "The mystery I've found –

I'll turn me round" –

He turned him round;

    12    But still it hung behind him.

         

          Then round and round, and out and in,

          All day puzzled sage did spin;

In vain— it mattered not a pin—

16     The pigtail hung behind him.

 

And right, and left, and round about,

And up, and down, and in, and out,

He turned, but still the pigtail stout

20         Hung steadily behind him.

 

And though his efforts never slack,

          And though he twist, and twirl, and tack,

 Alas! still faithful; to his back,

24     The pigtail hangs behind him.                           

--William Makepeace Thackeray

 

2.1 Below is the summary of the poem. Complete it by writing the missing word/ phrase against the correct blank number 

Long ago there lived a (a) _______ who wore a handsome (b) ________ which hung behind him. He was (c) _________ about the way his pigtail hung (d) _______ him. He wondered much about this (e) _________ case and thought deeply. Then he (f) ________ to change its place. He swore that he would turn himself (g) _________ to change the pigtail's place. He hoped that now it would (h) ______ at his face. He declared that he had found the (i) ________. All day long he turned (j) _______ and then he turned

(k) ________ and in all possible (l) _______ but the pigtail kept dangling from his back adamantly.

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