Question

choose the poem that uses internal rhyme.
when i see birches bend to left and right
across the lines of straighter darker trees,
i like to think some boy’s been swinging them.
but swinging doesn’t bend them down to stay.

in the market of clare, so cheery the glare
of the shops and the booths of the tradespeople there;
that i take a delight on a saturday night
in walking that way and in viewing the sight.

from robert frost, \birches\ and from eugene field, \clare market\

Explanation:

Internal rhyme is a rhyme within a single line of verse or between internal phrases of adjacent lines. In the first poem excerpt, there is no internal rhyme. In the second excerpt, the line "I like to think some boy's been swinging them" contains an internal rhyme between "think" and "swing(ing)".

Answer:

When I see birches bend to left and right
Across the lines of straighter darker trees,
I like to think some boy's been swinging them.
But swinging doesn't bend them down to stay.