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Which lines in this excerpt from Elizabeth Bishop's "The Fish" use assonance?

He was speckled with barnacles,
fine rosettes of lime,
and infested
with tiny white sea-lice,
and underneath two or three
rags of green weed hung down.
While his gills were breathing in
the terrible oxygen
--the frightening gills,
fresh and crisp with blood, that can cut so badly„
I thought of the coarse white flesh
packed in like feathers,
the big bones and the little bones,

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Answer:

fine rosettes of lime,

with tiny white sea-lice,

While his gills were breathing in

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