Read "The Railway Train" by Emily Dickinson. Which line contains consonance?

I like to see it lap the miles,

And lick the valleys up,

And stop to feed itself at tanks;

And then, prodigious, step

A.) Around a pile of mountains,

And, supercilious, peer

B.) In shanties by the sides of roads;

And then a quarry pare

To fit its sides, and crawl between,

Complaining all the while In horrid, hooting stanza;

C.) Then chase itself down hill

D.) And neigh like Boanerges;

Then, punctual as a star,

Stop-docile and omnipotent-

At its own stable door.

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Sierra Villegas

29 March, 05:10

Read "The Railway Train" by Emily Dickinson. Which line contains consonance?

I like to see it lap the miles,

And lick the valleys up,

And stop to feed itself at tanks;

And then, prodigious, step

A.) Around a pile of mountains,

And, supercilious, peer

B.) In shanties by the sides of roads;

And then a quarry pare

To fit its sides, and crawl between,

Complaining all the while In horrid, hooting stanza;

C.) Then chase itself down hill

D.) And neigh like Boanerges;

Then, punctual as a star,

Stop-docile and omnipotent-

At its own stable door.

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Ray Dudley · Answer 1

In my opinion, the correct answer is B.) In shanties by the sides of roads. Consonance is the repetition of the same or similar consonants in two of more words which are near each other; unlike alliteration, those consonants can be anywhere, and not just at stressed syllables. In this case, we have the repetition of consonants N, S and D, and also their relatives SH and TH: "InShanties by the sides of roads".