Read the excerpt from the last stanza of "The Turtle.” She can’t see
herself apart from the rest of the world
or the world from what she must do
every spring.
Crawling up the high hill,
luminous under the sand that has packed against her skin,
she doesn’t dream

Which element of free verse poetry gives structure to this excerpt?

the repetition of a vowel sound
the repetition of a consonant sound
the repetition of a word or phrase
the repetition of stressed syllables

what did the protagonist say?

i'm not sure what the second paragraph is but a decree is an official order issued by legal authority. find the one that best fits this definition.

in railroad songs, workers swung their hammers during the offbeat. work songs combined with traditional musical and lyrical forms, such as hymns and ballads, to create spirituals, the blues, and other jazz styles. this blending of old and new can be seen when comparing the lyrics to the traditional irish song "lass of roch royal" and the blues song "the deal."

as work songs and other forms of jazz developed, jazz music spread across the united states. for example, a jazz style known as dixieland went from new orleans to chicago by means of the famous trumpet player louis armstrong. the original dixieland band developed out of armstrong's influence and, in the early 1920s, moved to new york city. once jazz reached new york, especially harlem, its development