This may help.
https://quizlet.com/223875167/everyday-heroes-poems-by-nikki-giovanni-flash-cards/
Wait what is the question
I believe the answer is: strong, stern, and assertive.
The speech above is specifically made to address woman issue that arise in 1848, when women were openly discriminated against the society.
To gained reader's support on serious issue like this, it is important to use strong, stern, and assertive tone. This could be seen on the monotone statements and formal language that issued in the speech
<span>The language of the Anglo-Saxons (up to about 1150), a highly inflected language with a largely Germanic vocabulary, very different from modern English.</span>
Anyone, poetry isn't a source which not everyone can access. If this wasn't the intention of the question be sure to notify me. ( If you're asking me the question, yes. )
