Read the excerpt below and answer the question. batter my heart, three-person’d god; for you as yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; (“holy sonnet xiv: batter my heart”; lines 1–2) the meter of these two lines is: u/ u/ u/ u/ u/ u/ u/ u/ u/ u/ u/ u/ u/ u/ // u/ u/ u/ u/ // /u u/ u/ u/ // /u u/ u/ u/ u/ /u u/ u/ u/ u/ u/ u/ // u/ u

u/ u/ u/ u/ u/

u/ u/ u/ u/ u/

Explanation:

The Holy Sonnet XIV by John Donne is a sonnet appealing for a restoration of the soul by God. The speaker of the poem is appealing to God enter his heart in a violent manner, not even requesting for gentle intervention.

The given lines are the first two lines of the sonnet. This poem is written in the iambic pentameter form of poetry, where each line has ten syllables, or iambs. And these syllables are in alternating meters, where the unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable.

Thus, the meter of the two lines is

u/ u/ u/ u/ u/

u/ u/ u/ u/ u/

because of all the immigration, america became one big melting pot. the diversity of cultures from all over the world made america somewhat divided as well. people that immigrated stayed with their kind, and their traditions, while native born americans stayed with their kind and their traditions. normally, people born in american scorned the immigrants as well. the new religions also divided america. in summary, it took away from the american culture and identified america as the "melting pot."

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