the speaker's principal unit in this first stanza (as well as in the next two stanzas) is the ten syllable iambic line (the iamb
ic pentameter line, which has five iambic feet with two syllables per foot). but not every line in the stanza is a ten syllable line. A line may have four syllables or eight syllables. how many lines in this first stanza have eight syllables?
<span>Beneatha's character is largely defined by her troubled sense of identity and her striving after a dignity sourced both within her genetic history, as it were, and outside of her home/living conditions</span>
