Select the correct answer. Which excerpt contains a strict internal rhyme scheme?
A. Rippling in twelve-winded circles (from "Ceremony After a Fire Raid" by Dylan Thomas)
B. But the raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only (from "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe)
C. The eyes beside had wrung them dry, (from "Dying" by Emily Dickinson)
D. Hope is the thing with feathers (from "Hope" by Emily Dickinson)
E. The round green eyes and the long wavering bodies (from "Lines Written in Dejection" by William Butler Yeats)

Read the excerpt from the poem "growing up italian" by maria mazziotti gillan and answer the question that follows. when i was a little girl, i thought everyone was italian, and that was good. we visted our aunts and uncles, and they visted us. the italian language smooth and sweet in my mouth. in kindergarten, english words fell on me, thick and sharp as hail. i grew silent, the italian word balanced on the edge of my tongue and the english word, lost during the first moment of every question. source: gillan, maria mazziotti. "growing up italian." poetrymagazine.com. poetry magazine, n.d. web. 30 mar. 2011. what is the tone of this poem? what does the tone reveal about the speaker of the poem and the conflict she faces? based on this excerpt, what can you predict about the theme of the poem?