Can someone answer any or all of these questions?? Poem: The first snowfall by James Russell Lowell

1. List the rhyme scheme for the first two stanzas of the poem.

2. What example of personification do we witness in stanza two?

3. What four metaphors for snow do we observe in stanzas two and three?

4. What simile is evident in stanza four?

5. In stanza seven, “our first great sorrow” is a metaphor for what event?

6. Cite an example of alliteration from stanza eight.

7. Stanza eight describes a “slow healing process.” What simile does the poet use to help
the reader visualize this?

8. In the last stanza, what do we learn about the father as he kisses his little girl, Mabel?

Who can answer all those?!?!?!

Explanation:

the answer should be d) he was one of those young thousands who greeted the war with a certain amount of relief, welcoming the liberation from webs of tangled emotion" since it is the best option because it shows his desire to free himself. 

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paine is arguying that they had tried everything before coming to the conclusion that they needed to fight for their freedom.

argument: "every quiet method for peace hath been ineffectual."

claim 1: "our prayers have been rejected with disdain; and only tended to convince us, that nothing flatters vanity, or confirms obstinacy in kings more than repeated petitioning and nothing hath contributed more than that very measure to make the kings of europe absolute."

claim 2: "wherefore, since nothing but blows will do, for god’s sake, let us come to a final separation, and not leave the next generation to be cutting throats, under the violated unmeaning names of parent and child."