Question

Which stanza structure does Emily Dickinson use in this excerpt from “Hope Is the Thing with Feathers”? Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all, And sweetest in the gale is heard; And sore must be the storm That could abash the little bird That kept so many warm. couplet quatrain sestet octave

Answer 1

Emily Dickinson uses quatrain stanza structure in this excerpt. That means that each stanza has exactly 4 lines.

Answer 2

Answer: B) Quatrain.

Explanation: in the given excerpt from the poem "Hope is the Thing with Feathers" by Emily Dickinson, we can see two stanzas each one of them having four lines, this structure corresponds to a quatrain, which is a stanza that has exactly four lines, doesn't matter what length or with any meter, but usually it has alternate rhymes, so the correct answer is the corresponding to option B.