Dickinson has divided the poem into five stanzas, where each one is four lines long and has a rhyme scheme where the second and fourth lines rhyme. Most lines have the same number of syllables ...

In the second stanza, a hint of the deeper subject of the poem is introduced in the lines January, and we’re/looking back/looking forward/don’t know which way. The brevity and isolation of ...

the first two stanzas or twelve lines. The second half of the poem is attributed, according to this version, to Sarah Hale. The event occurred in Sterling, Massachusetts. A statue representing Mary's ...

The stanzas recount the Battle of Baltimore ... This is the most important line of the poem, and a climactic line in the song. Leepson: This is self-evident. It’s the crux of the whole song.

Published on this day in 1845, the work used alliteration, internal rhyme and repetition to draw in readers, lending it a ...

These lines come from Robert Frost’s brief ... But there, it would interrupt the flow from the title to the poem’s first stanza and sentence, which is: “At dinner I was seated next to ...

Lisken Van Pelt Dus sees things we probably never saw in quite the same way, and even as we may recognize these things in our ...