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What is the effect of the repetition of the "s" sound throughout Emily Dickinson's "The Snake"?

It makes clear distinctions between ideas.
It mimicks the sound that a snake would make.
none of these

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it mimicks the sound a snake would make

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it mimicks the sound a snake would make
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