418 "Because I could not stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson
The History of Literature
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Eight, Six, Eight, Eight With Dashes
"Emily, emily dickens's dashes are like train tracks," the poet writes. The whole poem is seven stanzas with eight and six punctuation marks. "We gaze out the window of our carriage, accompanied by death, our driver, or maybe our host", he says.
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