breaks from the blue-black



skin of the water, dragging her shell



with its mossy scutes



across the shallows and through the rushes



and over the mudflats, to the uprise,



to the yellow sand,



to dig with her ungainly feet



a nest, and hunker there spewing



her white eggs down



into the darkness, and you think



—“The Turtle,”

Mary Oliver



Which sound is repeated three times in the first part of the poem?



"buh"

"ell"

"ee"

"kuh"