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While it is alive

Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)

While it is alive
Until Death touches it
While it and I lap one Air
Dwell in one Blood
Under one Sacrament
Show me Division can split or pare—

Love is like Life—merely longer
Love is like Death, during the Grave
Love is the Fellow of the Resurrection
Scooping up the Dust and chanting "Live"!

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AXBXXB XXXA
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 295
Words 57
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 6, 4
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