I have nothing else to give you, so it is a pot full of yellow corn
to warm your belly in winter,
it is a scarf for your head, to wear
over your hair, to tie up around your face,

I love you,

—"I Am Offering This Poem,"
Jimmy Santiago Baca

Refer to the stanza to answer the questions.

How does the poet create a sense of rhythm in this stanza?

What idea does the rhythm of the stanza emphasize?

The poet used the stanza to create it like a song. He is creating the sense of loving towards whom is reading it or whom its dedicated to. Using the words in a rhyming sense, makes it so readers know just how much he loves the person its for!

Explanation:

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repetition is used to make the poem come off the page

the answers are:

1. dolores driscoll - b. first person minor

dolores is a minor character who happens to be driving the bus at the time of the accident. she narrates picking up each of the children and her last memory is the children being thrown around the bus.

2. billy ansel - a. first person major

billy loses his twins in the accident. he tells his own story, how he witnessed the accident and how he tried to the rescuers. he is a major character, as he is at the center of the story.

3. mitchell stephens - c. first person observer

mitchell enters the story after the accident. he is a lawyer who learns about the accident based on other characters observations. though he tells the story from a first person perspective, he is just an observer.

as for matcthing the message or lesson posted with the person who said them:

1."obviously, you can't control everything, but you are obliged to take care of the few things you can. i'm an optimist basically who acts like a pessimist. on principle. just in case." - dolores driscoll

2. "i could no longer believe even in life. . for me now the only reality was death." - billy ansel