EMILY DICKINSON

1830 - 1886

This poem provides an example of a caesura.

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!

To Caesura in the Glossary
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How public like a frog
To tell one's name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!

This poem provides an example of consonance used in place of end rhyme.

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