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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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