What kind of rhyme did Emily Dickinson use in her poems? a. exact rhyme b. slant rhyme c. no rhyme d. all of above

Emily Dickinson wrote almost 1,800 poems during her lifetime, so examining each one would require more time than we have here, but looking at even one of them shows that she used both exact rhyme and slant rhyme. Consider the first two stanzas of "I Felt a Funeral, in my Brain," for instance:

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,

And Mourners to and fro

Kept treading--treading--till it seemed

That Sense was breaking through--

And when they all were seated,

A Service, like a Drum--

Kept beating--beating--till I thought

My Mind was going numb--

In the second stanza, "Drum" and "numb" rhyme perfectly to the ear (exact rhyme). In the first stanza, "fro" and "through" are close in rhyming, but they do not rhyme exactly. Therefore, they compose a slant rhyme, sometimes called "off rhyme" or "approximate rhyme." 

There may be Emily Dickinson poems out there somewhere that do not rhyme at all, but I've never read one.