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Which two characteristics of this excerpt from James Weldon Johnson's poem "Lift Every Voice and Sing" help to classify it as a lyric poem?
Stony the road we trod,
Bitter the chastening rod,
Felt in the days when hope unborn had died;
Yet with a steady beat,
Have not our weary feet
Come to the place for which our fathers sighed?
We have come over a way that with tears has been watered,
We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered,
Out from the gloomy past,
Till now we stand at last
Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.
The poem contains imagery that communicates the speakers' emotions.
The poem is written in Sapphic stanzas with lines of alternating meter.
The poem captures the mood of a specific historical event.
The poem has a simple rhyme and doesn't narrate a sequence of events.
The poem is entirely about past events narrated from an eyewitness's point of view.