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* VindicatedByHistory: Her work had a poor reception in her lifetime. Today, she is a staple of literary classes.

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* VindicatedByHistory: Her work had a poor reception in her lifetime. Today, she is a staple of literary classes.classes.
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** ''Because I Could Not Stop For Death...'', one of her most famous poems, is written in Ballad Meter, aka Common Time. So is the theme song to ''Series/GilligansIsland'', and thus it can be sung to the same tune.

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** ''Because I Could Not Stop For Death...'', one of her most famous poems, is written in Ballad Meter, aka Common Time.Meter (8,6,8,6). So is the theme song to ''Series/GilligansIsland'', and thus it can be sung to the same tune.
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** ''Because I Could Not Stop For Death...'', one of her most famous poems, is written in Ballad Meter. So is the theme song to ''Series/GilligansIsland'', and thus it can be sung to the same tune.

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** ''Because I Could Not Stop For Death...'', one of her most famous poems, is written in Ballad Meter.Meter, aka Common Time. So is the theme song to ''Series/GilligansIsland'', and thus it can be sung to the same tune.

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* HilariousInHindsight: ''Because I Could Not Stop For Death...'', one of her most famous poems, is written in Ballad Meter. So is the theme song to GilligansIsland, and thus it can be sung to the same tune.

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* HilariousInHindsight: HilariousInHindsight:
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''Because I Could Not Stop For Death...'', one of her most famous poems, is written in Ballad Meter. So is the theme song to GilligansIsland, ''Series/GilligansIsland'', and thus it can be sung to the same tune.



* VindicatedByHistory: Her work had a poor reception in her lifetime. Today, she is a staple of literary classes.

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* VindicatedByHistory: Her work had a poor reception in her lifetime. Today, she is a staple of literary classes.
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** This works with pretty much all of her poetry, which was metrically based on hymns. You can also use "The Yellow Rose of Texas" or "AmazingGrace" and get the same effect.

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** This works with pretty much all of her poetry, which was metrically based on hymns. You can also use "The Yellow Rose of Texas" or "AmazingGrace" "[[AmazingFreakingGrace Amazing Grace]]" and get the same effect.

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* PainfulRhyme: YourMileageMayVary
** A lot of her stranger choices in rhyme are actually cleverer than they appear at first - Dickenson used a lot of slant rhyme and half rhyme, and was pretty innovative with her rhyme schemes. Some are just kind of bad, though.

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* PainfulRhyme: YourMileageMayVary
** A lot of her stranger choices in rhyme are actually cleverer than they appear at first - Dickenson used a lot of slant rhyme and half rhyme, and was pretty innovative with her rhyme schemes. Some are just kind of bad, though.
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* YourMileageMayVary: While many consider her to be an innovative genius, many others think her poems are overrated or just wish her parents had taught her proper grammar and punctuation.

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