Question

what type of rhyme is used in this excerpt from william butler yeatss poem \the municipal gallery revisited\?

my mediæval knees lack health until they bend,
but in that woman, in that household where
honour had lived so long, all lacking found.
childless i thought, my children may find here
deep - rooted things, but never foresaw its end,
and now that end has come i have not wept;
no fox can foul the lair the badger swept --

a. strict rhyme
b. internal rhyme
c. double rhyme
d. slant rhyme

Explanation:

To determine the rhyme type, we analyze the rhyming words: "where" and "here", "bend" and "end". Slant rhyme (also called half - rhyme) occurs when words have similar but not identical sounds. "where" (/weər/) and "here" (/hɪər/ or /hɪr/) have similar vowel - related sounds but not exact rhymes, and "bend" (/bend/) and "end" (/end/) also show a slant - like relationship in the context of the poem's rhyme scheme. Strict rhyme requires exact matching sounds, internal rhyme is within a line, and double rhyme has two syllables rhyming. So the correct type is slant rhyme.

Answer:

D. slant rhyme