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c. What might the flower have graced?
d. What did the flower diffuse?

e. What did the poet like the most of the flower, it’s size,

colour or humility?

9.3. Read the poem once again. Check the pattern of the

poem. The first and the third lines of each stanza rhyme
with each other. Similarly the second and the fourth
lines also rhyme. Write all the eight pairs of rhyming

words from the poem.

9.4. Now try to write your own poem in the same pattern.

Example :

My mom was very happy to see,

And nor my dad was sad;
Though first in the exam I couldn’t be,
My grades weren’t that bad.

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