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Answer the following: A Tiny Little Plant Deep in the heart of a little seed, Lay buried so, so deep, A tiny little plant fast asleep. List the rhyming words in the first three lines.

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Answer the following:

A Tiny Little Plant

Deep in the heart of a little seed,
    Lay buried so, so deep,
A tiny little plant fast asleep.

Out came the bright Sunshine,
     Down crept its light,
Into the seed, too bright.

A little plant woke up to see,
How bright the world might be.

List the rhyming words in the first three lines.

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Solution

The rhyming words: deep – asleep

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