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EMILY DICKINSON
1830 - 1886
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I'M NOBODY! WHO ARE YOU?
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provides an example of a caesura.
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I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us -- don't tell!
They'd advertise -- you know!
How dreary to be somebody!
How public like a frog
To tell one's name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!
HE FUMBLES AT YOUR SPIRIT
This poem
provides an example of consonance used in place of end rhyme.
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He fumbles at your spirit
As players at the keys
Before they drop full music on;
He stuns you by degrees,
Prepares your brittle substance
For the ethereal blow,
By fainter hammers, further heard,
Then nearer, then so slow
Your breath has time to straighten,
Your brain to bubble cool, --
Deals one imperial thunderbolt
That scalps your naked soul.