"there's A Certain Slant Of Light," Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKFK| There's a certain slant of light | A |
| On winter afternoons | B |
| That oppresses like the weight | C |
| Of cathedral tunes | B |
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| Heavenly hurt it gives us | D |
| We can find no scar | E |
| But internal difference | F |
| Where the meanings are | E |
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| None may teach it anything | G |
| ' T is the seal despair | H |
| An imperial affliction | I |
| Sent us of the air | H |
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| When it comes the landscape listens | J |
| Shadows hold their breath | K |
| When it goes 't is like the distance | F |
| On the look of death | K |
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
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