List the letter sounds in the order that they appear as assonance sounds.
Example:
Knowing that bird of mine
Though flown
Answer: o, i, o
1. The bows glided down, and the coast
Blackened with birds took a last look
At his thrashing hair and whale-blue eye
The trodden town rang its cobbles for luck.
2. The Humblebee
Burly, dozing Humblebee,
Where thou art is clime for me.
Let them sail for Porto Rique,
Far-off hearts through seas to seek;
I will follow thee alone,
Thou animated torrid zone!
Zigzag steerer, desert cheerer,
Let me chase thy waving lines;
Keep me nearer, me thy hearer,
Singing over shrubs and vines.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. Arise, shine, for thy light is come