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What type of rhyme appears in these lines from Emily Dickinson's poem "Angels in the Early Morning"?

Angels when the sun is hottest

May be seen the sands among,

Stooping, plucking, sighing, flying;

Parched the flowers they bear along.

Ainternal rhyme
Bslant rhyme
Cinternal rhyme and slant rhyme
Dinternal rhyme, slant rhyme, and end rhyme

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WorldlyGlass49

I would say the correct answer is C) there is an internal rhyme and slant rhyme.
Internal rhyme is sighing: flying, whereas the slant rhyme is among:along.

clashspores

The correct answer is C.

This poem by Emily Dickinson has two types of rhyme:

Internal rhyme is the one that occurs withing the same line of a verse. An example of this is: "Stooping, plucking, sighing, flying;"

Slant rhyme is a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of ending consonants match even if the preceding vowel sounds do not. Examples of this are the words: among and along.

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