Question

An Open Boat by Alfred Noyes See - quick - by that flash, where the bitter foam tosses,
 The cloud of white faces, in the black open boat,
 Which of the end rhymes below matches the one in the last line of the excerpt? “He’s living, I know. But he’s numbed with the cold.” “And there are no voices or ghosts in that darkness.” “And wraps her loose hair round his breast and his throat.” “Come. Loosen your fingers. – O God, let me keep him!”

Answer 1

“And wraps her loose hair round his breast and his throat.” is correct. I got it right on Odysseyware

Answer 2

Answer: C) “And wraps her loose hair round his breast and his throat.”

Explanation: a rhyme is a correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry. To select which of the options matches the rhyme on the last line of the given excerpt, we need to pay attention to the ending sounds of the lines. The las line of the excerpt ends with the word "boat" and from the given options, the line that ends with a word with a similar sound is option C, that ends with the word "throat," as we can see, it rhymes with "boat."