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4. What quality of the wind does the child find surprising?
5. Was the father of the child able to answer all his questions.
D. Answer with reference to the context.
Who paints the rainbow in the sky,
And hangs the fluffy clouds so high?
a. Which word in the above lines shows the presence of many colours?
b. Which word describes the clouds?
Spell It Right VOCABULARY Analytical Skills
A. Find a word from the poem for each of the following.
1. An object in the sky that changes its shape every day :
2. The natural thing which is never seen but can feel :
3. A band of seven colours appears in the sky on
certain occasions :
4. Something in the sky that looks like cotton :
What is Rhyme Scheme?
When the last sound of two or more words is the same, those words are
termed ‘Rhyming Words’.
Examples : green – seen, nest – rest
Read this popular Nursery Rhyme.
Twinkle twinkle little star, (A)
How I wonder what you are. (A)
Up above the world so high, (B)
Like a diamond in the sky. (B)
In the given poem the last word of the first line (star) rhymes with the last word
of the second line (are). Similarly the last word of the third line (high), rhymes
with that of the fourth (sky). The rhyme scheme thus followed is AA BB.
B. Identify the Rhyme Scheme in the given stanzas.
1. I wonder why the grass is green,
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