Read the quotation from "A Hymn to the Evening". “Night's leaden sceptre seals my drowsy eyes, Then cease, my song, till fair Aurora rise.” Wheatley uses the word leaden in these lines to suggest that

“Leaden” suggests something heavy, like lead. In the quotation, night’s heaviness is closing the speaker’s “drowsy eyes,” and the speaker says the song will stop until Aurora, the dawn, rises. This shows the speaker is tired and ready to rest, choice B.

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