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Once upon a time, there was a king who had a fascination to know the answers of the following three questions: 1) What is the right time to begin something? 2) Which people should the king listen to? 3) What is the most important thing for him to do? The king made an announcement that whoever would answer his questions, would get a large sum of money. Many people offered various answers. But the king was not satisfied. He heard about a worldly-wise hermit, so he undertook a journey to the woods where the hermit lived. But there was a catch, the hermit used to meet only common men, so the king went there disguised as a plain man. He saw him digging in front of his hut. The king met him and asked him his questions. He ignored as he was digging the ground. The hermit, being old and weak, tired out soon. The king offered him help and he obliged and gave him his spade. The king worked continuously through the evening. Done with the work, he blurted out the reason why he came to visit him in...

The poem is a sestet , a six line poem, describing a single scenery of a squirrel against the backdrop of a garden. In this poem, the narrator describes an imagery of a squirrel sitting on a ground, relishing (enjoying) "his" nut. Its rolled tailed forms the shape of a question mark.  The narrator uses the metaphor of an "overcoat" to describe its furry skin of grey colour. The squirrel is lively and loves playing with the narrator, who teases it by running around its beloved tree. When he runs, the squirrel gets positive reinforcement and it runs along with him around the tree. You must have noted that the poet used the pronoun "he" for the squirrel.

The narrator, a child describes a shed at the corner of his garden. He is afraid to go into it. He can hear the creaking of its rusted door hinges while from being laid in his bedroom. Also he saw spider webs on the door. He resolves to open that door one day   and conquers his fears. The window pane of the shed has three crack on its glass. When he walks past the shed, he fears that someone stares at him from the inside. His brother, taking advantage of his fear of the shed, tells him that a ghost lives underneath the floor of the shed. He cautions the narrator against entering the shed because if he does so, a ghost will chop his head off. But the narrator dispels this ghost theory, owing it to his brother's plan to keep it as his own place. He himself refutes his own misconceptions about it. He plans to go into the shed, some day, but not at the present time. This shows that he is still afraid of the unknown contents of the shed.