Identify the eye rhymes in this excerpt from "The Brigs of Ayr" by Robert Burns.

The simple Bard, rough at the rustic (plough,)

Learning his tuneful trade from (ev'ry) bough;

The chanting linnet, or the mellow (thrush,)

Hailing the setting sun, sweet, in the green thorn (bush; )

The soaring lark, the perching red-breast (shrill),

Or deep-ton'd plovers grey, wild-whistling o'er the (hill)

Shall he-nurst in the peasant's lowly (shed,)

To hardy independence bravely (bred,)

By early poverty to hardship (steel'd).

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Oswaldo Fitzpatrick

21 June, 20:09

Identify the eye rhymes in this excerpt from "The Brigs of Ayr" by Robert Burns.

The simple Bard, rough at the rustic (plough,)

Learning his tuneful trade from (ev'ry) bough;

The chanting linnet, or the mellow (thrush,)

Hailing the setting sun, sweet, in the green thorn (bush; )

The soaring lark, the perching red-breast (shrill),

Or deep-ton'd plovers grey, wild-whistling o'er the (hill)

Shall he-nurst in the peasant's lowly (shed,)

To hardy independence bravely (bred,)

By early poverty to hardship (steel'd).

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Hallie Woods · Answer 1

The simple Bard, rough at the rustic plough,

Learning his tuneful trade from ev'ry bough;

The chanting linnet, or the mellow thrush,

Hailing the setting sun, sweet, in the green thorn bush;

The soaring lark, the perching red-breast shrill,

Or deep-ton'd plovers grey, wild-whistling o'er the hill

Shall he-nurst in the peasant's lowly shed,

To hardy independence bravely bred,

By early poverty to hardship steel'd.

eye rhymes are words that have similarity in spelling but are different in pronunciation.