Which statement best describes the rhyme schemes of "to my dear loving husband" and "to the king's most excellent majesty"?
both poets primarily use couplets to link ideas about love and devotion; bradstreet uses inversion to complete rhymes.
both poets use couplets for rhyme scheme and structure, inverting sentences when needed to maintain the rhyme.
bradstreet uses couplets throughout; wheatley uses couplets and inverts sentences as needed for emphasis.
bradstreet uses couplets for their overall rhyme scheme and structure; wheatley uses couplets to enhance the poem as a song of praise.

Read the following excerpt from "dark tower" by claude mckay before you choose your answer. "we shall not always plant while others reap the golden increment of bursting fruit, nor always countenance, abject and mute, that lesser men should hold their brothers cheap; not everlastingly while others sleep shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute, not always bend to some more subtle brute. we were not made eternally to weep. the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark, white stars, is no less lovely being dark; and there are buds that cannot bloom at all in light, but crumple, piteous, and fall. so in the dark we hid the heart that bleeds, and wait, and tend our agonizing needs." in context, the expression "the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark,/ white stars, is no less lovely being dark; " is best interpreted as a. the light of the stars overpowers the black of night b. the black of night overpowers the light of the stars c. black and white contribute equally to the beauty of the night sky d. black and white continuously compete for prominence in the night sky