Question

Read the following excerpt from "The Cloud," by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Answer the question that follows: I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; I passed through the pores of the oceans and shores; I change, but I cannot die. The first and third lines of the stanza feature examples of (5 points)

A. alliteration
B. end rhyme
C. internal rhyme
D. repetition

Answer 1

the answer is internal rhyme

Answer 2

The answer is:

C. internal rhyme

Internal rhyme is what is called when in the same verse you can find a rhyme, in this case the first sentence rhymes daughter with water, and the third rhymes pores and shores.

"I am the daughter of Earth and Water,

And the nursling of the Sky;

I passed through the pores of the oceans and shores;

I change, but I cannot die."