Can someone help me with this, please i also have 1 more question after this one :) Explain Coleridge’s use of assonance in the first four lines of the poem. In Xanadu1 did Kubla Khan2 A stately pleasure-dome decree; Where Alph,3 the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to sunless sea. 5 So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round; And here were gardens bright with sinuous4 rills,

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Can someone help me with this, please i also have 1 more question after this one 🙂 Explain Coleridge’s use of assonance in the first four lines of the poem. In Xanadu1 did Kubla Khan2 A stately pleasure-dome decree; Where Alph,3 the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to sunless sea. 5 So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round; And here were gardens bright with sinuous4 rills,

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I believe the correct answer is a. “caves” and “man”.

Explanation:

Proportion is the figure of speech that indicates the repetition of vowels in the adjacent words in the line. With this in mind, the words from these lines “Kubla Khan”, Samuel Taylor Coleridge use the words “caves” and “man” to create unity (both words repeat the “e” sound).