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Explain how Phillis Wheatley’s rhyming and use of meter create emphasis on certain words and, in turn, themes. Cite evidence from the text to support your answer. From CommonLit On Begin Brought From Africa to America.

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In Phillis Wheatley's poem "On Being Brought from Africa to America", she uses a unique argumentative style for elaborating her point of view. She states rhetorical and characteristic logic based on enlightenment.

In the first line of the iambic parameter, she uses words like "mercy" and "pagan" to stress that God shows gracious gestures towards his people but his people are very indifferent. They show no mercy but act like demi-gods.

She emphasizes on racism and American slavery. She also describes Christianity is the only way to salvation.

The rhyming scheme of this poem is AABBCCDD.

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The poet presents the iambic parameter and an AABBCCDD rhyme scheme to emphasize religious themes and refer to racism, acculturation, and slavery.

“On Being Brought From Africa to America” is a short poem, which has only one stanza. The poetess uses the iambic parameter to emphasize the musicality and rhythm of the poem, in addition to using rhyme to emphasize the narrative that the poem presents.

When reading the poem, we can see that:

The meter and rhyming scheme emphasize words that reinforce the poem's religious content.Some of these words are "mercy," "pagan," "redemption," "savior."The poem uses these words to expose the theme of acculturation and religious violence that the African slaves were forced into.Furthermore, the poem shows how even being forced into Christianity, the slaves were seen as something devilish and cursed.

However, the author does not condemn those who abandoned the African religion and surrendered to violent Christianity, because regardless of religion, she believes that all slaves must rise and overcome the oppression they go through.

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