To die
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
To die--takes just a little while--
They say it doesn't hurt--
It's only fainter--by degrees--
And then--it's out of sight--
A darker Ribbon--for a Day--
A Crape upon the Hat--
And then the pretty sunshine comes--
And helps us to forget--
The absent--mystic--creature--
That but for love of us--
Had gone to sleep--that soundest time--
Without the weariness--
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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Scheme | XXXX XXXX XAXA |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 356 |
Words | 60 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
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