Emily Dickinson compared to Robert FrostI would like to compare Dickinson's "Because I could not stop for Death" with Frost's "Stopping by Woods on...

Comparing "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening"  by
Robert Frost, and "Because I could not stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson, have some
similarities and differences in terms of style.

Both poems
are written in four-line stanzas. The meter of both poems is rhythmic and lilting. Each
poem seem to follow a contrived pattern of beats (but the patterns are
different).

The last way in which the poems are the same is
that each author uses personification.

Frost personifies
the horse—

My
little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse
near

and Dickinson
personifies Death—

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Because I could not stop for Death,
He
kindly stopped for
me;

However, the poems are
dissimilar in several ways.

Frost's poem has a clear rhyme
scheme of AABA.

Dickinson's poem does not have clear rhyme
at all. Some lines might have end rhyme following an ABCB pattern, but there is only one
instance of true rhyme ("ground" / "mound"), and perhaps near rhyme for most of the
remaining stanzas (though it is a far stretch, I think, with "ring" and
"sun").

The meter in Frost's poem is distinct, with four
stressed beats per line. Dickinson's poem is different than Frost's. The pattern she
creates for the most part is comprised of alternating lines of four
beats, then three beats, returning to four beats
again.

Source:

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