Read the excerpt below from “the lake of the dismal swamp” by thomas moore and complete the instruction that follows. “they made her a grave, too cold and damp for a soul so warm and true; and she’s gone to the lake of the dismal swamp, where, all night long, by a fire-fly lamp, she paddles her white canoe. “and her fire-fly lamp i soon shall see, and her paddle i soon shall hear; long and loving our life shall be, and i’ll hide the maid in a cypress tree, when the footstep of death is near.” identify the rhyme scheme and metrical pattern of this poem. the rhyme pattern is abbab and the meter is trochaic. the rhyme pattern is abaab, and the meter is iambic. the rhyme pattern is abaab and there is no meter. the poem is written in free verse without rhyme or meter.

Stone, two or three feet thick, the door of wood and iron, a foot thick, and the iron grating which strained the light, i could not being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if i were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up. i wondered that it should have concluded at length that this was the best use it could put me to, and had never thought to avail itself of my services in some way. i saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through before they could get to be as free as i was. i did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar. i felt as if i alone of all my townsmen had paid my tax. — “civil disobedience,” henry david thoreau based on this passage, how did thoreau feel about his confinement?

Which type of conflict does della face in o. henry’s “the gift of the magi”? a. character versus society b. character versus machine c. character versus character d. character versus nature

Tom’s testimony has the effect of making scout feel sympathetic towards both tom and mayella. explain why she is sympathetic towards each of them.