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Which of these excerpts from poems by Emily Dickinson uses irony?

My cocoon tightens, colors tease,
I'm feeling for the air;
A dim capacity for wings
Degrades the dress I wear.


Could she have guessed that it would be;
Could but a crier of the glee
Have climbed the distant hill;
Had not the bliss so slow a pace, —
Who knows but this surrendered face
Were undefeated still?


One dignity delays for all,
One mitred afternoon.
None can avoid this purple,
None evade this crown.


There's a certain slant of light,
On winter afternoons,
That oppresses, like the weight
Of cathedral tunes.


Heavenly hurt it gives us;
We can find no scar,
But internal difference
Where the meanings are.


Exultation is the going
Of an inland soul to sea, —
Past the houses, past the headlands,
Into deep eternity!

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the second stanza uses irony
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The answer is

Exultation is the going

Of an inland soul to sea, —

Past the houses, past the headlands,

Into deep eternity!


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