418 "Because I could not stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson
The History of Literature
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A Poem of Seven Stanzas
This is a poetic genius operating at an extremely high level. Our next stanza is the only one, actually, in this whole poem of seven stanzas, the only one that doesn't follow the eight six, eight 6 pattern. Naturally, it comes in the middle, or nearly so, just after the middle. So in other words, we have three that follow the pattern, one that's slightly different, and then two that followed the pattern.
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