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Question
Read the poem once again. Identify the rhyme scheme and pick out the rhyming pairs of words.
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Solution
ab, ab is the rhyming scheme of the poem
- link – think
- wreaths -breathes
- measure – pleasure
- fan – can
- air – there
- plan – man
- ran – man
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