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प्रश्न
Write your favourite stanza from the poem and find the rhyming scheme.
उत्तर
Some water coal and oil ¡s all we ask
And a thousandth of an inch to give us play.
And now, if you will set us to our task
We will serve you four and twenty hours a day!
The rhyming words are “ask, task and play, day.
Hence, the rhyme scheme is a b a b
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