While she is known for her unconventional style, her poems do have a consistent structure and rhyme scheme.
Here's why:
* Meter: Dickinson often used common meters like iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter.
* Rhyme: She frequently used slant rhyme, where words sound similar but don't perfectly rhyme. However, she still relied on rhyme schemes, often AABB, ABAB, or ABCB.
* Form: Although she didn't adhere to traditional forms like sonnets or villanelles, her poems typically have a consistent number of stanzas and lines per stanza.
While Dickinson challenged the conventions of her time, her poetry isn't technically free verse. It's more accurate to say that she created her own unique poetic form that combined traditional elements with her own innovations.