Question

which lines from \sonnet in primary colors\ by rita dove provide an example of a rhyme?
\this is for the woman with one black wing / perched over her eyes: lovely frida, erect\
\her spine resides in, that flaming pillar— / this priestess in the romance of mirrors.\
\to the celluloid butterflies of her beloved dead, / lenin and marx and stalin arrayed at the footstead.\
\love a skull in the circular window / of the thumbprint searing her immutable brow.\

Explanation:

To determine which lines contain a rhyme, we analyze the end - sounds of the lines in each option. A rhyme occurs when two or more words have similar - sounding final syllables (usually at the end of lines in poetry).

• Option 1: The end words are “wing” and “erect”. The sounds of these two words are not similar, so there is no rhyme.
• Option 2: The end words are “pillar” and “mirrors”. The sounds of these two words are not similar, so there is no rhyme.
• Option 3: The end words are “dead” and “footstead”. The “-ed” sound in “dead” and the “-ead” sound in “footstead” (when pronounced, the final syllables have a similar vowel - consonant combination) create a rhyme.
• Option 4: The end words are “window” and “brow”. The sounds of these two words are not similar, so there is no rhyme.

Answer:

C. "to the celluloid butterflies of her Beloved dead, / Lenin and Marx and Stalin arrayed at the footstead."