Identify the two sets of eye rhymes in this excerpt from "The Brigs of Ayr" by Robert Burns.

The simple Bard, rough at the rustic plough,

Learning his tuneful trade from ev'ry bough;

The chanting linnet, or the mellow thrush,

Hailing the setting sun, sweet, in the green thorn bush;

The soaring lark, the perching red-breast shrill,

Or deep-ton'd plovers grey, wild-whistling o'er the hill

Shall he-nurst in the peasant's lowly shed,

To hardy independence bravely bred,

By early poverty to hardship steel'd.

a

plough and bough

b

thrush and bush

c

shrill and hill

d

shred and bred

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Ellie Ballard

16 December, 08:40

Identify the two sets of eye rhymes in this excerpt from "The Brigs of Ayr" by Robert Burns.

The simple Bard, rough at the rustic plough,

Learning his tuneful trade from ev'ry bough;

The chanting linnet, or the mellow thrush,

Hailing the setting sun, sweet, in the green thorn bush;

The soaring lark, the perching red-breast shrill,

Or deep-ton'd plovers grey, wild-whistling o'er the hill

Shall he-nurst in the peasant's lowly shed,

To hardy independence bravely bred,

By early poverty to hardship steel'd.

a

plough and bough

b

thrush and bush

c

shrill and hill

d

shred and bred

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Kellen Miller · Answer 1

The answer is D because an eye rhyme refers to words that look like they should rhyme but sound different. "Thrush" and "Bush" both end with "-ush" but the "u" is pronounced differently.