Read the poem "the sky is low, the clouds are mean" below, and answer the question that follows.

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.

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.

Read the excerpt from frederick douglass’s speech “what to the slave is the fourth of july? ” go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through south america, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, america reigns without a rival. which phrase best describes the connotation of the word “reigns”? a sense of opportunity and growth a sense of fear and anxiety a sense of compassion and humanity a sense of oppression and domination