Question

What sound device is represented by the underlined words in the following line?

Answer 1

The sound device used in the words peering and fearing is rhyming. It is the use of words which have similar sounds to connect them in a poem. It aids the poem by giving it more of a connected feel and helps the audience or reader to feel more connected to it.

Answer 2

2) internal rhyme 

Internal rhyme refers to a sound device in poetry, where a word in the middle of a line rhymes with a word at the end of a line, or rhymes with a word in the middle of the next line. 

In this instance, "peering" occurs in the middle of the line "Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood wondering, fearing", and it rhymes with the word "fearing" at the end of the line- representing an internal rhyme.