How would you describe the rhyme scheme of the stanzas in the poem "Sympathy"? What words are emphasized through Dunbar's use of alliteration? What is the effect of each sound device?-

Answer and Explanation:

The poem "sympathy" uses the ABAABCC rhyme scheme from the beginning to the end. This promotes stability in the sound that the lines promote, presenting a more harmy and stable musicality.

The alliteration highlights the words "beats" and "bars". This means that alliteration is a figure of speech that causes the repetition of consonant phonemes in the same sentence or paragraph, in the case of this poem, along the same line. This also promotes sound stability to the poem.

the correct order is:

you're your own worst enemy:

they're going to say what they say, but

their opinions aren't holding you

back. it's your self-defeatist

attitude that's keeping your work

from getting its due.