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Away from Home are some and I—

Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)

Away from Home are some and I—
An Emigrant to be
In a Metropolis of Homes
Is easy, possibly—

The Habit of a Foreign Sky
We—difficult—acquire
As Children, who remain in Face
The more their Feet retire.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 28, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABXB AXXX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 209
Words 39
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4
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