
437 A Million Miracles Now - "A Bird, came down the Walk" by Emily Dickinson
The History of Literature
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The End of a Beetle Song
Seam revolve resolves in swim. The rhymes resolve with resonance. It's like the end of a beetle song. I could pick, but i'll pick the chord at the end of she loves youit's not the standard choice. Here's the oher pattern that emily is breaking up in her final line. Those lines, the first three lines in that stanza have two pairs, and they are dominant. Each of the first three gives us a pair like that, oars and ocean, o and oh, silver and seam and butterflies and banks. Buh buh. And then leap flashless as they swim. But leap splashless is a little more of a
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