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Best Gains—must have the Losses' Test

Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)

Best Gains—must have the Losses' Test—
To constitute them—Gains—

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme AB
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 79
Words 11
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 2
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