Answer:
"I Am Prepared to die" is the name given to the three-hour speech given by Nelson Mandela on 20 April 1964 from the dock of the defendant at the Rivonia Trial. The speech is so titled because it ends with the words "it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die". The speech is considered one of the great speeches of the 20th century, and a key moment in the history of South African democracy
There are 6 lines in each of the stanzas.
Explanation:
The poem follows an unusual rhyme scheme so it is harder to pin down as it also constitutes close rhymes as rhymes but you can see that the poem actually has 6 line stanzas. This is evident if you notice the fact that:
the rhyme scheme in the first stanza follows something like this:
line 1 has a rhyme with the 4th line in still it and fill it
line 2 rhymes with line 5th with in it and linnet
line 3 rhymes with line 6th with go and slow.
This pattern makes the rhyme scheme to be abcabc and the pattern repeats itself in the next stanza. So the verses have 6 lines in a stanza.
Answer:
<h2>Amerigo Bonasera, a Sicilian-American undertaker, sits in a New York City courtroom awaiting the sentence of two men who viciously attacked his daughter. The judge chastises the offenders, but suspends their sentence due to their fathers’ political connections and their clean records. A furious Bonasera watches the men leave the courtroom. He thinks about his daughter lying in her hospital bed “with her broken jaw wired together.” Bonasera has long trusted the law, but now he feels the law has failed him. He tells his grieving wife, “for justice we must go on our knees to Don Corleone.”</h2>
The novel opens by highlighting the major theme of crime and justice that runs throughout the story. Through the court’s failure to adequately punish the men who assaulted Bonasera’s daughter, Puzo presents Don Corleone, and, by extension, the Mafia, as an alternative system of justice that has the courage to do what the legitimate law cannot, or will not, do.