The sky is low, the clouds are mean, A travelling flake of snow
Across a barn or through a rut
Debates if it will go.

A narrow wind complains all day
How some one treated him;
Nature, like us, is sometimes caught
Without her diadem.
Read the poem "The Sky is Low, the Clouds are Mean", and answer the question that follows.

What effect is created by the pauses at the end of lines two, four, six, and eight in this poem? How is this effect connected to the larger impact of the poem? Your response should be no less than 150 words.

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