In There’s a certain slant of light, the author utilizes rhyme scheme to enclose a hidden message that relates to the theme. Dickinson conveyed death in another significance that death is part of the life cycle every human must cross into. The poem has a rhyme scheme of ABCB in each stanza. The third stanza contains the words despair and air alongside the fourth stanza that includes the words breath and death. All living things breathe to stay alive demonstrating that breath is a symbolism for life. The rhyming links these two words to show how they both correlate to each other. The air which everyone breathes is forsaking the despair that one must die.
Another literary device the poet indicates is tone to describe people’s reaction to death. Death is presumed as fearful and the ending of life. The change of tone in each stanza transforms the peaceful atmosphere in stanza one into the pain of dying in stanza four. The second stanza explains a heavenly hurt that leaves no scars but internal difference. The internal difference is perceived as an internal conflict that people’s souls and bodies will all disappear that can find no scar. The following stanza continues that death is essential to the life cycle and it can only be taught through experiencing our thoughts of despair and affliction.

Emily Dickinson’s Because I could not stop for Death, suggests that death is not such a fearful concept. She reveals this message by using symbolism to display that death is part of the life cycle each person goes through. In stanza three, the three scenes the carriage passes in