"there's A Certain Slant Of Light," Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKFKThere'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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