Question

Which element of modernist poetry is evident in this excerpt from "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" by Langston Hughes?


I've known rivers:
I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the
flow of human blood in human veins.


My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
A:The poem uses variations of meter to affect rhyme.
B:The poem’s sentences flow across stanzas.
C:The poem’s stanzas have varying lengths.
D:The poem uses nontraditional syntax and rhyme scheme.
I think its either B or C but ic ant decide between those two
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Answer 1

I think c @SolomonZelman

Answer 2

thanks :)

Answer 3

welcome