... a mess across "your cedar floor" (8) In this poem rhyme and rhythm are very important and also the literary elemnts of metaphores and personification. The ryhme scheme of this poem is abcb defe, making the second line and the fourth line rhyme in each stanza. The feet of this peom are mostly iambic, except for the first lines of each stanza. The ... ...

• Word Count: 431
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... that it is very difficult to place her in any single tradition--she seems to come from everywhere and nowhere at once. Dickinsons poetic form has customary four-line stanzas, ABCB rhyme shecmes, and alternations in iambic meter- this is derived from Psalms and Protestant hymns. But then Dickinson imposes her own long, rhythmic dashes that serve to interrupt the meter ... ...

• Word Count: 1665
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School