Read the following excerpt from Whitman’s “A Noiseless Patient Spider” and answer the question.
A noiseless patient spider,
I mark’d where on a little promontory it stood isolated,
Mark’d how to explore the vacant vast surrounding,
It launch’d forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself,
Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them.
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A poet writing free verse is not required to follow a rhyme scheme. However, the poet may use rhyme—the vowel sounds in the stressed syllables match—in other ways to create a sense of structure or emphasize an idea. Which of the following words is a rhyming word in the excerpt above?
patient
stood
unreeling
isolated
