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What stanza structure does Emily Dickinson use in this excerpt from hope it the thing with feathers

What stanza structure does Emily Dickinson use in this excerpt from hope it the thing with feathers
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What stanza structure does Emily Dickinson use in this excerpt from hope it the thing with feathers

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The two stanzas are quatrains which means that they are stanzas with 4 verses. The verses' meter alternates between a tetrameter and a trimeter, starting with a tetrameter. The second stanza also rhymes with an ABAB pattern.
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