Poems are such versatile things. They can be as concise as a well-written line but also long enough to fill an entire book.

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 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.

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 ...