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Tamil Nadu Board of Secondary EducationSSLC (English Medium) Class 10

The weather is always too hot or cold; Summer and winter alike they scold. Nothing goes right with the folks you meet Down on that gloomy Complaining Street.

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The weather is always too hot or cold; Summer and winter alike they scold. Nothing goes right with the folks you meet Down on that gloomy Complaining Street.
Pick out the rhyming words and identify the rhyme scheme of the above lines.

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Solution

The rhyming words are ‘cold – scold; meet – street’;
The rhyming scheme of the above lines is ‘aabb’.

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Chapter 2.2: The Grumble Family - Exercise [Page 48]

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Samacheer Kalvi English Class 10 SSLC TN Board
Chapter 2.2 The Grumble Family
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