There is a finished feeling

Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)



There is a finished feeling
Experienced at Graves—
A leisure of the Future—
A Wilderness of Size.

By Death's bold Exhibition
Preciser what we are
And the Eternal function
Enabled to infer.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme XXAX BXBA
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 193
Words 34
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4

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