1. Which of the following is the rhyming couplet from the sonnet from "Clearances"?

A. When all the others were away at Mass / I was all hers as we peeled potatoes."

B. " They broke the silence, let fall one by one / Like soldier weeping of the soldiering iron"

C. "Went hammer and tongs at the prayers for the dying / And some were responding and some crying"

D. " Her breath in mine, our fluent dipping knives - / Never closer the whole rest of our lives"

2. In "Not Waving but Drowning," each of the following speakers contributes to the poem except?

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Angel Nichols

8 August, 10:38

1. Which of the following is the rhyming couplet from the sonnet from "Clearances"?

A. When all the others were away at Mass / I was all hers as we peeled potatoes."

B. " They broke the silence, let fall one by one / Like soldier weeping of the soldiering iron"

C. "Went hammer and tongs at the prayers for the dying / And some were responding and some crying"

D. " Her breath in mine, our fluent dipping knives - / Never closer the whole rest of our lives"

2. In "Not Waving but Drowning," each of the following speakers contributes to the poem except?

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Kennedy Simpson · Answer 1

A rhyming couplet is two lines in a poem which rhyme and typically have the same meter, which means they have the same number of syllables.

The correct answer is D. " Her breath in mine, our fluent dipping knives - / Never closer the whole rest of our lives"

A and B don't even rhyme, and C belongs to a quatrain, not a couplet, and those two lines don't have the same meter. D meets all the requirements of a rhyming couplet.