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प्रश्न
Pick out all the pairs of rhyming words used in the poem.
उत्तर
Rhyming words:
- Paw – law
- Despair – there
- Macavity – gravity
- Stare – there
- Air – there
- Thin – in
- domed – uncombed
- Snake – awake
- Macavity – depravity
- Square – there
- Cards – yard’s
- Rifled – stifled
- Repair – there
- Astray – way
- Repair – there
- Stair – there
- Say – away
- Thumbs – sums
- Macavity – suavity
- Spare – there
- Known – griddle one
- Time – crime.
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