The rhyme scheme is ABBA (Like the band). Night rhymes with sight. Cross rhymes with loss.
The word with a negative connotation is discouraging.
When someone is discouraged, they are dispirited, disheartened, and with a lack of enthusiasm; this has a negative implication.
All other options have positive connotations, except maybe bulb, which is pretty neutral.
I hope this helps you!
The answer is Thanksgiving and United :)
To see if it sounds right out loud so you can make corrections, hope that helps!
Seems to me the answer is.
"Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure, now that it was truly their own food, produces by themselves and for themselves, not doled out to them by a grudging master".
maybe...it seems it to me though.