Name: Course: Professor: Institution: Emily Dickinson: I felt a funeral in my head analysis The poet uses a rhythm that mirrors the hymns of a church. Dickinson uses rhyming quatrains that possess a regular rhythm. The rhyme scheme in the poem follows a specific pattern. For example, the fourth and second line in each stanza show some rhyming and that creates some form of rhythm. However, the last stanza does not adopt the pattern mentioned above. At that point, the poem reaches a climax and Dickinson seems to emphasize how things fall apart. The author also uses other words that sound similar but lack a similar rhyme. For instance, in the first stanza, the poet uses “fro” and through”...
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