Read the excerpt below and answer the question.

And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,

As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,

A mighty fountain momently was forced:

20 Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst

Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,

Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail:

And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever

It flung up momently the sacred river. ("Kubla Khan," lines 17-24)

The rhythm in the excerpted lines of Coleridge's poem can be compared to

1) heavy breathing

2) pounding water

3) sharp gunshots

4) rolling thunder

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Gilberto Keller

20 February, 00:15

Read the excerpt below and answer the question.

And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,

As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,

A mighty fountain momently was forced:

20 Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst

Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,

Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail:

And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever

It flung up momently the sacred river. ("Kubla Khan," lines 17-24)

The rhythm in the excerpted lines of Coleridge's poem can be compared to

1) heavy breathing

2) pounding water

3) sharp gunshots

4) rolling thunder

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Selina Waller · Answer 1

2

Explanation:

I'd say it could be either of 2 or 4, but the rhythm usually compares to something already greatly represented in the poem. in this situation that would be water