- Understand rhyme schemes and structure. A sonnet has 14 lines.
The last six are the sestet. The sestet holds the last two lines, which are a couplet; the last
word in each of the couplet's lines rhyme with each other. There is a rhyme scheme through
the entire poem. See Shakespeare's Sonnet #18 for example:
1. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
2. Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
3. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
4. And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
5. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
6. And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
7. And every fair from fair sometime declines,
8. By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
9. But thy eternal summer shall not fade
10. Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
11. Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
12. When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
13. So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
14. So long lives this and this gives life to thee.

        its hard for some people to get along and that’s the case for douglass and canot. most of the time when people do not agree with each other its because they have different presperctives, and that is the case here.

captain canot was never a slave so but he was a slaver and a slave ship captain and just like the slave master's he tought it was it was totally normal, he used captain conot is a cruel man who enjoys whipping slaves but never   got whipped he saw it has a destiny for the slave to be a slave and the slaver to be a slaver   but douglass has suffered whoppings cut   even for no reason sometimes. douglass believed that slavery was not natural to black people, they need to study and learn how to read and write. he knew they have rights.

it was really not the captain’s fault he was just brainwashed by the system and when your brainwashed by the system its hard not to be brainwashed. but the reason douglass wants this is because he has suffered he knows how it feels and will do anything to stop that.

i believe the answer is d : )

may i see the historical information and the excerpt?