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For these stanzas from "The Twa Corbies," find TWO correct answers:

As I was walking all alane,
I heard twa corbies making a mane;
The tane unto the t'other say,
"where sall we gang and dine today?"

"in behint yon auld fail dyke,
I wot there lies a new-slain knight;
And naebody kes that he lies there
But his hawk, his hound, and lady fair.

exact rhyme	consonance	metrical augmentation
slant, near, half rhyme	euphony	headless line
mosaic rhyme	onomatopoeia	catalexis
wrenched rhyme	alliteration	enjambment
masculine rhyme	beat/ictus	end-stopped
feminine rhyme	implied offbeat	anacrusis
multiple rhyme	unrealized beat	hypermetric syllable
vowel rhyme	tumbling verse	diaeresis
monorhyme	sprung rhythm	substitution
rhyme riche	poetic contraction	elision
internal rhyme	synaeresis	hemistich
assonance	syncope	caesura