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"To make a prairie" by Emily Dickinson To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, - One clover, and a bee, And revery.* The revery alone will do If bees are few. * Revery is an old-fashioned spelling of the word reverie, meaning daydream. 1. Emily Dickinson. "To make a prairie" in Poems, ed. Mabel Loomis Todd (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1896), 119. Which of the following is the most plausible explanation for how the structure of the poem contributes to its meaning? O A. The poem's short length conveys that it does not take a lot of imagination to create a dream. B. The rhyming of "do" with "few" is a lyric structure that's used to convey that the absence of pests, such as bees, makes daydreaming much easier.

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