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More Life—went out—when He went

Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)

More Life—went out—when He went
Than Ordinary Breath—
Lit with a finer Phosphor—
Requiring in the Quench—

A Power of Renowned Cold,
The Climate of the Grave
A Temperature just adequate
So Anthracite, to live—

For some—an Ampler Zero—
A Frost more needle keen
Is necessary, to reduce
The Ethiop within.

Others—extinguish easier—
A Gnat's minutest Fan
Sufficient to obliterate
A Tract of Citizen—

Whose Peat lift—amply vivid—
Ignores the solemn News
That Popocatapel exists—
Or Etna's Scarlets, Choose—

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 26, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XAXA
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 519
Words 81
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
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