Emily Dickinson's Poetry Answers

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What elements of ballad structure appear?

The first and third lines rhyme and have the same number of syllables.

The first and second lines have the same number of syllables.

The second and fourth lines rhyme and have the same number of syllables.

Each line ends with a dash, and the second and fourth lines rhyme.

What evidence in the excerpt reveals Dickinson’s style?

slant rhyme, dashes, and nonstandard capitalization

perfect rhyme and first-person point of view

different line lengths and the topic of death

regular meter and lines of equal length

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