Which two consecutive lines from the poem contain a slant rhyme?


The Wood Pile

by Robert Frost

Out walking in the frozen swamp one grey day

I paused and said, "I will turn back from here.

No, I will go on farther—and we shall see."

The hard snow held me, save where now and then

5 One foot went down. The view was all in lines

Straight up and down of tall slim trees

Too much alike to mark or name a place by

So as to say for certain I was here

Or somewhere else: I was just far from home.

10 A small bird flew before me. He was careful

To put a tree between us when he lighted,

And say no word to tell me who he was

Who was so foolish as to think what he thought.

He thought that I was after him for a feather—

15 The white one in his tail; like one who takes

Everything said as personal to himself.

One flight out sideways would have undeceived him.

And then there was a pile of wood for which

I forgot him and let his little fear

20 Carry him off the way I might have gone,

Without so much as wishing him good-night.

He went behind it to make his last stand.

It was a cord of maple, cut and split

And piled—and measured, four by four by eight.

25 And not another like it could I see.

No runner tracks in this year's snow looped near it.

And it was older sure than this year's cutting,

Or even last year's or the year's before.

The wood was grey and the bark warping off it

30 And the pile somewhat sunken. Clematis

Had wound strings round and round it like a bundle.

What held it though on one side was a tree

Still growing, and on one a stake and prop,

These latter about to fall. I thought that only

35 Someone who lived in turning to fresh tasks

Could so forget his handiwork on which

He spent himself, the labor of his axe,

And leave it there far from a useful fireplace

To warm the frozen swamp as best it could

40 With the slow smokeless burning of decay.

Verified Answer :

Not an English person, but I believe in

"20 Carry him off the way I might have gone,
Without so much as wishing him good-night."

The slant rhyming words are "might" and "good-night"

A Virginal

by Ezra Pound


No, no! Go from me. I have left her lately.

I will not spoil my sheath with lesser brightness,  

For my surrounding air hath a new lightness;

Slight are her arms, yet they have bound me straitly  

And left me cloaked as with a gauze of æther;  

As with sweet leaves; as with subtle clearness.  

Oh, I have picked up magic in her nearness

To sheathe me half in half the things that sheathe her.  

No, no! Go from me. I have still the flavour,

Soft as spring wind that’s come from birchen bowers.  

Green come the shoots, aye April in the branches,

As winter’s wound with her sleight hand she staunches,  

Hath of the trees a likeness of the savour:

As white their bark, so white this lady’s hours.

the answer is c :

Green come the shoots, aye April in the branches,

As winter’s wound with her sleight hand she staunches,