... 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 ... ...

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