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Exclusion (The soul selects her own society)

Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)

The soul selects her own society,
   Then shuts the door;
   On her divine majority
   Obtrude no more.
   Unmoved, she notes the chariot's pausing
   At her low gate;
   Unmoved, an emperor is kneeling
   Upon her mat.
   I've known her from an ample nation
  Choose one
  Then close the valves of her attention
  Like stone.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 12, 2023

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Scheme ABABCDCEFFFG
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 323
Words 55
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
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