Question about Emily

[Doreen Peri]

Did everything Emily Dickenson wrote rhyme at the end of the lines?

[Arcadia]

mmm... no idea! I´ll be in the same problem if you ask me if all that Rubén Darío wrote rhymed at the end of the lines!

just googled this:

A ROUTE of evanescence
With a revolving wheel;
A resonance of emerald,
A rush of cochineal;
And every blossom on the bush 5
Adjusts its tumbled head,—
The mail from Tunis, probably,
An easy morning’s ride.

yeah, wheel and cochineal seems to rhyme somehow!

[Doreen Peri]

yeah and 5 maybe sorta rhymes with ride

but you've just proven that the answer is NO, not everything she writes rhymes

I just got a book by her as a gift for christmas and was leafing through and thought it all was rhyming poetry

guess i need to actually read it to find out, huh?

lol

thanks arcadia!

[UMBERTO UMBERTO]

Try this explanation of ED's slant rhyme, of half-rhyme.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half_rhyme

ED was pretty inventive and is in no way enslaved to perfect rhyme-- or meter.

This Google Books page might have to be scrolled a bit to find the discussion of Dickinson's use of rhyme and meter:

http://books.google.com/books?id=iWH-OX ... #PPA140,M1


If you get lost, scroll back up to the books table of contents, then select the chapter on rhyme . . .

I hope these links help.



NCM

[mtmynd]

Dor' "I just got a book by her as a gift for christmas and was leafing through..."

You opened your gift prematurely..?

[Doreen Peri]

Thanks, Umberto! Will check out your links.

Mtmynd - we had an early christmas party last saturday at my sister's and exchanged a few gifts. Christmas again on Christmas day! Yay! Can't have too many Christmases, that's what I say.

......

I'm really not too hip on Emily. I already had a collection of her works from years ago and very rarely read her because it all seems so archaic and sing-songy. With this new collection I got, I'll give her another chance.

[mtmynd]

Sounds more like one very long Christmas.
Wouldn't that be nice? If we imagined
a world peace and got one
and not a whirled peas blended
into some unpalatable mystery?

Merry Christmas, Doreen, to you and yours!

[Arcadia]

it´s curious but it happens to me to do more somehow free-funny-interesting readings with texts I (first sight) think I´m not appealed to. I do it sometimes as a kind of exercise! Enjoy the gifts!!!!!

& yeah!, feliz navidad para vos & family, doreen!!!!!!!!!