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418 "Because I could not stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson

The History of Literature

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Ain't That?

"I shot it with a gun and stepped on his head. That was my high school." The poem has seven stanzas, four lines per stanza. It's easy to find - just look at the words that pop out of those lines. We have one stanza to go since then tis centuries, and yet feel shorter than the day i first surmised the horses heads were toward eternity.

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