English “The Chariot” by Emily Dickinson [1] Because I could not stop for Death,
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Question
English
“The Chariot”
by Emily Dickinson
[1] Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality.
[2] We slowly drove, he knew no haste,
And I had put away
My labor, and my leisure too,
For his civility.
[3] We passed the school where children played,
Their lessons scarcely done;
We passed the fields of gazing grain,
We passed the setting sun.
[4] We paused before a house that seemed
A swelling of the ground;
The roof was scarcely visible,
The cornice but a mound.
[5] Since then 'tis centuries; but each
Feels shorter than the day
I first surmised the horses' heads
Were toward eternity.
"The Chariot," Emily Dickinson, 1901
Which BEST explains how Dickinson's poem differs from traditional poems of the time?
Explanation / Answer
The correct answer is option A.
It is composed in six quatrains with the meter alternating between iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter. She always compose poetry altering meters.