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America we cuss you to your face” (Persaud lines 20-21) you can quickly see the negativity and bitterness building up in him. One will soon come to notice that the author has used mixed emotion in this poem. Towards the end of the poem the author completely snaps into this demanding tirade figure. When reading this poem, the lower your eyes go, the lower the level of happiness there is throughout it. The tone that the author uses makes the reader read faster. Also he gets angrier throughout his writing. This is a form of pacing and can help the author catch the reader’s attention. Also this leads the reader on and will make he/she reach the main point of the poem. This is because the author is proving his point and to do this his tone gets angry. Each event the author has had in this poem has a happy side but leads to mournfulness.