Which of the following contains a transitive verb?

my father cried audibly at our neighbor’s funeral.

i understood the concepts better than my friends.

after its bath, the dog smelled fresh.

the roses flourished on the right side of the yard.

Complete the sentences based on your reading of this excerpt from "il penseroso" by john milton: where i may sit and rightly spell of every star that heav'n doth shew, and every herb that sips the dew; till old experience do attain to somthing like prophetic strain. in this poem, when the speaker says he "may sit and rightly spell," he refers to . the phrase "prophetic strain" means . nextreset