Read the excerpt from "digging." between my finger and my thumb the squat pen rests; snug as a gun. under my window, a clean rasping sound when the spade sinks into gravelly ground: my father, digging. i look down till his straining rump among the flowerbeds bends low, comes up twenty years away stooping in rhythm through potato drills where he was digging. read the haiku by bashō. a crow has settled on a bare branch— autumn evening. how does the structure of these poems differ? “digging” is a one-stanza poem with many lines, while bashō's haiku has multiple stanzas with few lines. “digging” is a long poem with no sound devices, while bashō's haiku is a short poem with many sound devices. “digging” has many stanzas of equal length, while bashō's haiku has many stanzas of varying lengths. “digging” has multiple stanzas of varying length, while bashō's haiku has only one stanza of three lines.

Its D, I took the test and got it right

“Digging” has multiple stanzas of varying length, while Bashō's haiku has only one stanza of three lines. (last option)

Explanation:

Seamus Heaney's “Digging” has eight stanzas. The first and the fifth stanzas have two lines each; the second and the eighth stanzas have three lines each; the third and seventh stanzas have four lines each; the fourth stanza has five lines, and the sixth stanza has eight lines.  

Bashō's haiku has only one stanza of three lines.

overnment is strong when they have the ability to persuade those they govern to believe government has enough power to force them or should be forcing them to do government’s will.

when enough of the citizenry do not believe government can force them or should force them to do its bidding, government has lost or will lose its strength and power to coerce.

when enough of the citizenry do believe government can force or should force them to do its bidding, they become passive at the least or actively pro-government and repeat government’s own rhetoric to pass on what they have been persuaded by government’s propaganda.

a true majority isn’t always needed to govern or to stop government. many times all that is needed is a strong minority. if a determined 30% of the population rises up against government in a concerted effort to bring it down, this size minority usually will succeed as long as those actively opposing the minority are less in force than the minority. so if 41% of the population sits at home watching tv rooting for one side or the other, they don’t matter. it’s the active parties who make a difference.