18: The Enigma of Emily Dickinson (Part 1)
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Emily Dickinson's 8686 Hymn Meter
This poem has both perplexed and astounded readers since the moment Lavinea Dickinson founded in 1886. We see the steady meter of 8686 return in the syllable structure, just like in hope is a thing with feathers. It's important to point out that this common meter existed well before Emily started writing. She once asked Thomas Swendworth Higginson whether her poems were alive. And after more than a century boy are they ever.
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