What the memorial is
February 2019.
A national monument in New Delhi, raised by the Government of India to honour brave soldiers. It was established in February 2019.
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National War Memorial · Class 6 English · Poorvi
English 3 topics 87 leveled MCQs 45 flashcards 5 games Free
Shared by a Veda teacher · Generated with Veda AI · Oct 2026
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How recent it is
Newer than you think.
Most pupils reading this poem were already born in February 2019. That is unusual for a national monument.
Each name etched
Cut in, not put on.
Etching cuts a name into the stone. A written name sits on the surface and could be wiped off, and a cut one cannot be.
Six pairs
Read the ends first.
Behold and retold. Pride and confide. Wide and side. Glows and shows. Mind and remind. Remember and forever.
A couplet
It has a name.
Two lines that rhyme together. This poem is six couplets stacked one on another, with no gaps between them.
What couplets do to the pace
Steady steps.
Every two lines close. You get a small finish, then another, then another, and the poem moves at an even pace.
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What you'll study, topic by topic
1
The Poem: What the Memorial Holds
A short poem about a monument in New Delhi, and what it chooses to put in front of a reader: names in stone, a flame that never goes out, and a request.
- The National War Memorial stands in New Delhi and was established in February 2019.
- The Government of India had it built, to honour brave soldiers.
- The poem says each name is etched, which means cut into stone rather than written on it.
~30 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
2
How the Poem Is Built: Rhyme, Repetition and a Stone that Feels
Six pairs of rhyming lines, one pair that does not quite rhyme, a word repeated three times in a row, and a building given feelings it cannot have.
- The poem is made of six pairs of lines, and each pair rhymes.
- Two of those pairs share the same sound, so four lines in a row end in the same way.
- The final pair, remember and forever, is close but not an exact rhyme.
~30 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
3
Read It, Learn It, Go and See It
Three small activities that form a ladder, a way of learning a poem by heart that uses its rhymes, and how to look up and visit a real memorial.
- The three activities are read the poem aloud, recite it together, and remember it.
- They form a ladder: the page, then the group, then neither.
- Reading aloud uses the page, and reciting means saying it without one.
~30 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
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87 questions laddered from warm-up to topper-level, each with an explanation. A taste:
The National War Memorial was established in ____.
Beginner
A February 2019
B August 1947
C January 1950
D October 1999
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February 2019
Which makes it very recent.
Who built the memorial?
Beginner
A A trust set up by soldiers
B The city of New Delhi
C The Government of India
D Families of the soldiers
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The Government of India
A national monument, nationally built.
Why is the date of this memorial unusual for a national monument?
Advanced
A It was built before Independence
B Most pupils reading the poem were already born
C It took a hundred years to finish
D Nobody agrees on the date
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Most pupils reading the poem were already born
Monuments are usually older than their readers.
Heartland, in the first line, means ____.
Intermediate
A a place near the sea
B the border of a country
C a place of great battles
D the middle of a country
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the middle of a country
And the word carries heart in it too.
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