Direction : Read the following poem and answer the questions given below it.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to Keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
The words ‘deep’ and ‘keep’ as given in the poem are
- ASimile
- BMetaphor
- CRhyming words
- DAlliterative words
Solution & Step-by-step Explanation
The words 'deep' and 'keep' sound identical in their ending vowel and consonant phonemes (/iːp/). Since they are located at line-ends and produce matching acoustic resonance, they function as rhyming words.