what excerpt contains a strict internal rhyme scheme?

A.
Rippling in twelve-winded circles
(from "ceremony after a fire raid" by Dylan Thomas)

B.
But the raven, sitting lonely on the placid. Bust, spoke only
(from "the raven" by Edgar Allen poe)

C.
The eyes beside had wrung them dry,
(from "dying" by Emily dickinson)

D.
Hope is the thing with feathers
(from "hope" by Emily dickinson)

E.
The round green eyes are long wavering bodies
(from "lines written in dejection" by William butler Yeats)

B. Internal rhyme appears when a word in the middle of the line rhymes with a word at the end of the line. In this quote from the raven, the word "lonely" in the middle of the line rhymes with the end word "only".

C is close, but is not completely strict. "eyes" "beside" and "dry" have the same vowel sound and are very rhythmic, but they're not strict rhymes like in the Poe quote.

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andygast0615 andygast0615 · Answer 2 · 2019-01-03T03:04:54+01:00

The Internal Rhyme Schemes is a literary device and occurs when the rhyming words are 'metrical', this means that the word placed in the middle must rhyme with the word placed at the end of a line.

There are three types of Internal Rhymes: same line (the rhyming words are placed in the same line), separate line (two or more rhyming words in the middle of the of separate lines) and end of a middle line (the word at the end of the line rhymes with the word in the middle of the next line and the word at the end of the next line).

In this case, the correct answer is B. 'But the raves, sitting lonely on the placid. Bust spoke only' And is using the Internal Rhyme Scheme in a separate line with the words 'lonely' and ' only'.