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Which rhyming couplet from Phillis Wheatley’s “On Imagination” contains an inverted sentence?
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Which rhyming couplet from Phillis Wheatley’s “On Imagination” contains an inverted sentence?

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The first rhyming couplet from the poem contains an inverted sentence. This was done so as to create a rhyme between "see" and "thee". That is why the first line does not follow the standard Subject Verb Object pattern.
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