The rhyme scheme in the poem is: a b b a a b b a c d e c d e.
There is no end couplet, which makes this poem a Petrarchan sonnet.
Petrarchan sonnet consists of fourteen lines, the first eight lines (also called oc<em>tave</em>) follow the scheme: a b b a a b b a, and the rhyme scheme of the following six lines (also called <em>sestet</em>) may vary.
Word choice...thesaurus gives alternative but same meaning for a word.
Answer:
I assume you meant to ask, "What is a simile <em>in </em>"The Hands of an Angry God." So, one example is the simile in which the author compares God's wrath to a terrible flood (“The wrath of God is like great waters that are dammed for the present...”).
Well definitions can help a lot. I’m not completely sure though