Success+is+counted+sweetest

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Success is counted sweetest
 * In the "Success" poem by Emily Dickinson she claims that success is further valued and more desirable if not attained, through end rhyme with imagery.


 * S-
 * 3 stanzas, 12 lines fixed
 * formal/ elevated
 * line breaks before and after "death"
 * C-
 * family oriented, private
 * depressed, highly defined
 * Gothic/Romanticism
 * L-
 * alliteration "defeated -dying-"
 * paradox "success is counted By those who ne'er succeed"
 * I-
 * SIGHT "purple host" "took flag today"
 * SOUND "the distant strains of triumph"
 * F-
 * metaphor "success is counted sweetest"
 * symbolism flag- "victory"
 * T-
 * topic (measure of success)
 * angle (more desirable if not attained)