The Angle of a Landscape

Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)



The Angle of a Landscape—
That every time I wake—
Between my Curtain and the Wall
Upon an ample Crack—

Like a Venetian—waiting—
Accosts my open eye—
Is just a Bough of Apples—
Held slanting, in the Sky—

The Pattern of a Chimney—
The Forehead of a Hill—
Sometimes—a Vane's Forefinger—
But that's—Occasional—

The Seasons—shift—my Picture—
Upon my Emerald Bough,
I wake—to find no—Emeralds—
Then—Diamonds-which the Snow

From Polar Caskets—fetched me—
The Chimney—and the Hill—
And just the Steeple's finger—
These—never stir at all—  

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXAX XBXB CDEX EXXX CDEA
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 575
Words 86
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4

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