Question

which rhyming couplet from phillis wheatley’s “on imagination” contains an inverted sentence?
○ “now here, now there, the roving fancy flies,
till some lov’d object strikes her wand’ring eyes,”
○ “to tell her glories with a faithful tongue,
ye blooming graces, triumph in my song.”
○ “whose silken fetters all the senses bind,
and soft captivity involves the mind.”
○ “imagination! who can sing thy force?
or who describe the swiftness of thy course?”

Explanation:

To determine the couplet with an inverted sentence, we analyze each option. An inverted sentence reverses the typical subject - verb order. In the couplet “To tell her glories with a faithful tongue, Ye blooming graces, triumph in my song,” the normal word order for the second line would be something like “Ye blooming graces triumph in my song” (subject - verb - object/adverbial), but here the structure is adjusted. The other options follow more standard word order. For example, in “Now here, now there, the roving Fancy flies, Till some lov'd object strikes her wand'ring eyes,” the subject - verb order is normal. The same goes for the third and fourth options.

Answer:

B. "To tell her glories with a faithful tongue, Ye blooming graces, triumph in my song."