Analyzing Stanza’s in Poems Essay Example

You can see that this poem, like most of Dickinson's poems, has an ABCB rhyme scheme. Here, our rhyming pairs are "saw/raw" and "grass/pass. " Extra note: Dickinson wasn't strict in her rhyming. Though she did take steps to fit her feelings into the rhyme (she kept a dictionary by her bed, to help her find just the right word), if she couldn't find the rhyme, she came close. * "Ballad-like" meter "Ballad-like" implies song-like, and many folks have put Dickinson's words to music. The alternating stressed syllables and the rhyme create a pleasing sound to the reader. Most of Dickinson's poetry presents the same natural rhythm. Here are a couple of lines broken to emphasize the stressed syllables: “A bird came down the walk— He did not know I saw... ” * Punctuation * Dickinson is famous for her use of dashes. See l