One Sister Have I In Our House Poem by Emily Dickinson

One Sister Have I In Our House

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One Sister have I in our house,
And one, a hedge away.
There's only one recorded,
But both belong to me.

One came the road that I came—
And wore my last year's gown—
The other, as a bird her nest,
Builded our hearts among.

She did not sing as we did—
It was a different tune—
Herself to her a music
As Bumble bee of June.

Today is far from Childhood—
But up and down the hills
I held her hand the tighter—
Which shortened all the miles—

And still her hum
The years among,
Deceives the Butterfly;
Still in her Eye
The Violets lie
Mouldered this many May.

I spilt the dew—
But took the morn—
I chose this single star
From out the wide night's numbers—
Sue - forevermore!

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Subhas Chandra Chakra 22 March 2016

Nicely composed, Thanks.

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Susan Williams 31 December 2015

The poem is mostly written in iambic trimeter with the second and fourth line of each quatrain rhyming- well, okay, sometimes slant rhyming..

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Wow I likes this poem.

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Amherst / Massachusetts
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