A poem by the mysterious Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), Congressman’s daughter, recluse, prolific letter writer, and one of the most astonishing brains English poetry has ever seen.
This poem consists of lines that alternate between iambic trimeters and iambic tetrameters, and the rhyme scheme is pretty simple: ABCB. This is one of the more organized works of Dickinson.
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