Walt Whitman was an American poet who was born in 1819. Leaves of Grass is one of his most well-known poetry collections. Listen to an excerpt from one of his poems here.

View the excerpt of the poem here.

What did you notice about this poem’s structure as you listened? Check all that apply.

It is a poem with a fixed form.
It does not have a specific rhyme scheme.
It has rhyming quatrains.
It has a free form.
It does not have a set meter.

Skill check questions rearrange the paragraphs below into the correct sequence. that's because engineers on the ultraclean project have invented a self-cleaning, antibacterial metal surface that repels water with an intricate layer of laser-engraved valleys. when it rains, the lotus does not become damp; the water simply trickles off in fat droplets, taking any bugs and dirt with it. the drudgery may not be around much longer, however, if a team of italian scientists has anything to do with it “it's simply an amazing plant,” concluded professor luca romoli, leader of the project, “and we've succeeded in mimicking it. magnifico! ” few tasks in life hold less joy than scrubbing the ghost of somebody else’s porridge from a saucepan. the starting point for the research was the leaves of the lotus flower.

In melville's "bartleby the scrivener," why does the narrator refuse to fire bartleby even after bartleby has told him he will never write for him again? select all that apply

What phrase from "speech after being convicted of voting" most engages the audience's sense of pathos, or their emotions?