Walt whitman was an american poet who was born in 1819. leaves of grass is one of his most well-known poetry collections. listen to an excerpt from one of his poems here. view the excerpt of the poem here. what did you notice about this poem’s structure as you listened? check all that apply. it is a poem with a fixed form. it does not have a specific rhyme scheme. it has rhyming quatrains. it has a free form. it does not have a set meter.

The greatest gift the sumerians gave the world was the invention of writing. the sumerians were a wealthy people. they needed some way to keep track of what they owned. they began drawing pictures. they used a reed as a pen. they drew on soft pieces of clay. the soft clay was then dried in the sun. the tablet became a permanent record. later, the sumerian drawings changed into wedge-shaped symbols. this kind of writing is called cuneiform. by putting symbols together, the sumerians could write entire sentences.