The speaker is a child who observes different workers on his way to school and back.
The hawker sells bangles in the street in the morning.
The child thinks the hawker is free because he has no fixed time or place to follow.
The gardener is digging the ground with a spade in the afternoon.
The child admires him because nobody scolds him even if he gets dirty in the sun or rain.
The street lamp is compared to a giant with one red eye in its head.
The watchman walks up and down the lane swinging his lantern at night.
The child wishes to be a watchman because he can walk all night and never go to bed.
The opposite of day is night.
A giant means a very huge person or thing.
Exclamations show strong feelings and end with an exclamation mark.
The contraction of 'do not' is 'don't'.
‘Bed’ and ‘red’ are rhyming words in the poem.
The activity asks children to imagine and write about what they want to be when they grow up.
An apostrophe (') is used in contractions.
The hawker has no fixed routine and roams freely.
The gardener is free because no one scolds him for getting dirty.
The watchman can stay awake all night and walk freely in the lane.