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Read this excerpt from Phillis Wheatley's poem "To Excellency General Washington," and complete the sentence that follows.

Celestial choir! enthron'd in realms of light,

Columbia's scenes of glorious toils I write.

While freedom's cause her anxious breast alarms,

She flashes dreadful in refulgent arms.

See mother earth her offspring's fate bemoan,

And nations gaze at scenes before unknown!

See the bright beams of heaven's revolving light

Involved in sorrows and the veil of night!

The iambic pentameter in the poem creates an even

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