A Well

Emily Dickinson * Track #88 On Third Series

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Emily Dickinson

1896

A Well by Emily Dickinson

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Emily Dickinson

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In Dickinson’s poem number 1400, A Well; water, grass, and nature are vividly personified to be always there.

With an A-B-C-B rhyme pattern, this six stanza-poem consists of four line stanzas with lines alternating between iambic tetrameters and iambic trimeters.

A Well Annotated

What mystery pervades a well!
The water lives so far,
Like neighbor from another world
Residing in a jar.

Whose limit none has ever seen,
But just his lid of glass –
Like looking every time you please
In an abyss's face!

The grass does not appear afraid;
I often wonder he
Can stand so close and look so bold
At what is dread to me.

Related somehow they may be, —
The sedge stands next the sea,
Where he is floorless, yet of fear
No evidence gives he.

But nature is a stranger yet;
The ones that cite her most
Have never passed her haunted house,
Nor simplified her ghost.

To pity those that know her not
Is helped by the regret
That those who know her, know her less
The nearer her they get.

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