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Based on your understanding of the poem, read the following line and answer the question given below.
My heart was so light
that I sang day and night,
For all nature looked gay.
“You sang, Sir, you say”?
Mention the rhyme scheme employed in the above lines.
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Solution
aabb’ is the rhyme scheme.
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