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Appreciating the Poem
• Rhyme scheme
• Rhyming words
The rhyming pattern that is created at the end of the lines of a poem forms the rhyme

scheme.

Example: Mary had a little lamb, a
Its fleece as white as snow. b

And everywhere that Mary went, c
The lamb was sure to go. b

The rhyme scheme in the given poem is abcb.

A. What is the rhyming scheme of the poem, ‘Wind on the Hill’? (first stanza)

B. Pick out four pairs of rhyming words from the poem and write them here.

1. 2.

3. 4.

Word Wise
• Singular and plural nouns

We have discussed in the previous classes that we can form plural nouns by adding -s
or -es to singular nouns. We can also form plurals in the following ways.

Rules Examples

For nouns ending in s/sh/x/ch/o, we lens – lenses; brush – brushes;
add -es. fox – foxes; match – matches;
potato – potatoes

For a noun ending in -y that is preceded lily – lilies; story – stories
by a consonant, we change -y to i and

add -es.

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