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Read the Above Lines and Answer the Question that Follow. Which Birds Are Used to Describe the State of the Free Bird? - English 2 (Literature in English)

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A free bird leaps on the back
Of the wind and floats downstream
Till the current ends and dips his wing
In the orange suns rays
And dares to claim the sky.

Read the above lines and answer the question that follow.

Which birds are used to describe the state of the free bird?

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The words used are leaps, floats, dares and claims.

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Chapter 1.07: I Know why the Caged Bird Sings - Stanza 1

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