"Hope is the Thing with Feathers"

by Emily Dickinson

Hope is the thing with feathers—

That perches in the soul—

And sings the tune without the words—

And never stops—at all—

And sweetest—in the Gale—is heard—

And sore must be the storm—

That could abash the little Bird

That kept so many warm—

I've heard it in the chillest land—

And on the strangest Sea—

Yet, never, in Extremity,

It asked a crumb—of Me.

The first line of the poem has an irregular rhythm of one stressed syllable, two unstressed syllables, then one stressed syllable and one unstressed for the remaining four beats.

Which describes the meter of the rest of the poem?

A. three stressed and three unstressed syllables on the first and third lines; four stressed and four unstressed syllables on the second and fourth lines

B. four stressed and four unstressed syllables on the first and third lines; three stressed and three unstressed syllables on the second and fourth lines

C. three unstressed and three stressed syllables on the first and third lines; four unstressed and four stressed syllables on the second and fourth lines

D. four unstressed and four stressed syllables on the first and third lines; three unstressed and three stressed syllables on the second and fourth lines

Read the passage from the opinion of the court in dred scott v. sandford, written by justice taney. the question then arises, whether the provisions of the constitution, in relation to the personal rights and privileges to which the citizen of a state should be entitled, embraced the negro african race, at that time in this country, or who might afterwards be imported, who had then or should afterwards be made free in any state; and to put it in the power of a single state to make him a citizen of the united states, and endue him with the full rights of citizenship in every other state without their consent? does the constitution of the united states act upon him whenever he shall be made free under the laws of a state, and raised there to the rank of a citizen, and immediately clothe him with all the privileges of a citizen in every other state, and in its own courts? the court thinks the affirmative of these propositions cannot be maintained. and if it cannot, the plaintiff in error could not be a citizen of the state of missouri, within the meaning of the constitution of the united states, and, consequently, was not entitled to sue in its courts. what claim does justice taney make in this passage? that sanford has the right to enslave scott that scott has the right to be emancipated that scott is not a citizen of missouri that sanford cannot sue because he is not a citizen