My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close

by Emily Dickinson

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What poetic devices are used by Dickinson in her poem My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close?

Posted by leo-07 on December 3, 2007 at 1:42 PM and tagged with devices, my life closed twice before its close, style

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When I teach this poem I call attention the rhythm, rhyme scheme, punctuation, and figures of speech, and of course meaning. It consists of two quatrains, abcb and defe. Rhyming words attract...

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Posted by sagetrieb on December 3, 2007 at 7:50 PM

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