Yet, let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings   The lines illustrates________

Analyze the question: These lines come from Alexander Pope's Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot: "Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, / This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings." We are asked to identify the poetic device or form the lines illustrate.

Explain the concepts:

• Blank verse: unrhymed iambic pentameter.
• End rhyme: the last words of lines rhyme with each other.
• Internal rhyme: words rhyme within a single line, usually in the middle and at the end.
• Free verse: no regular meter or rhyme scheme.

Solution:

1. The first line ends in "wings".
2. The second line ends in "stings".
3. "Wings" and "stings" rhyme, and the rhyme falls at the ends of the lines. This is end rhyme, and the two lines form a rhyming couplet (heroic couplet, since Pope uses iambic pentameter).
4. The lines are not blank verse, because blank verse does not rhyme.
5. They are not free verse, because they have regular meter and rhyme.
6. They are not internal rhyme, because the rhyming words are not inside one line. The only line-internal echo is "stinks and stings", which is alliteration/consonance, not a rhyme.

Answer: B. End rhyme

Tip: To spot end rhyme, look at the last word of each line. If they sound alike (wings/stings), it is end rhyme. For internal rhyme, look for a rhyming pair within the same line. Remember that blank verse means no rhyme at all.