Question

which rhyming couplet from phillis wheatley’s “on imagination” contains an inverted sentence?

• “now here, now there, the roving fancy flies,

till some lov’d object strikes her wand’ring eyes,”

• “to tell her glories with a faithful tongue,

ye blooming graces, triumph in my song.”

• “whose silken fetters all the senses bind,

and soft captivity involves the mind.”

• “imagination! who can sing thy force?

or who describe the swiftness of thy course?”

Explanation:

An inverted sentence reverses the normal word order (subject - verb - object, etc.). In the couplet “Whose silken fetters all the senses bind, And soft captivity involves the mind,” the first line has an inverted structure. The normal order would be something like “All the senses are bound by whose silken fetters” (or rephrased for the original context), but here the object - related phrase (“whose silken fetters”) comes before the subject - action (“all the senses bind”). The other options follow more standard sentence structures in terms of word order.

Answer:

"Whose silken fetters all the senses bind,
And soft captivity involves the mind."