Question

select the correct text in the passage. in this excerpt from \a bird song\ by christina georgina rossetti, which three lines contain internal rhyme? its a year almost that i have not seen her. oh, last summer green things were greener, brambles fewer, the blue sky bluer. its surely summer, for theres a swallow. come one swallow, his mate will follow, the bird race quicken and wheel and thicken.

Explanation:

Internal rhyme is the rhyme between a word in the middle of a line and another word at the end of the line or in the middle of another line. In "Oh, last summer green things were greener", "green" in - between rhymes with "greener" at the end. In "Brambles fewer, the blue sky bluer", "blue" in - between rhymes with "bluer" at the end. In "The bird race quicken and wheel and thicken", "quicken" in - between rhymes with "thicken" at the end.

Answer:

Oh, last summer green things were greener,
Brambles fewer, the blue sky bluer.
The bird race quicken and wheel and thicken.