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Question
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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