Identify each as haiku or tercet:
1) in a solitude of the sea
deep from human vanity,
and the pride of life that planned her, stilly couches she
2) on a withered branch
a crow is sitting
this autumn eve
3) spies, you are lights in state, but of base stuff
who when you've burnt yourself down to the snuff,
stink and are thrown away. end fair enough.

What is the effect of ruckeyser’s repetition of the word “devices” in the first and third lines of “poem”? it suggests that the poem is set at an earlier time. it to create a mechanical, robotic tone in the poem. it emphasizes the speaker’s feeling of detachment toward the war. it creates a metaphor comparing humanity to manufactured objects.

From his studies of coptic, champollion knew that the egyptian word for "sun" was pronounced rah. he wrote down the first two letters of that sound, ra. next he put a question mark for the unknown middle hieroglyph. then, at the end, he wrote ss, the sound of the last two hieroglyphs. he studied the combination: ra ? ss. suddenly he remembered a famous pharaoh whose name appeared in ancient greek chronicles and also in the biblical book of exodus: rameses, or ramesses. could this be a hieroglyphic representation of ramesses' name? based on the excerpt, what detail did champollion need to conclude that the hieroglyphics might represent ramesses’s name?

In concrete mixers what seems to be the speakers feeling about the concrete mixers