Lyric Poem · Friendship
Nature assigns the Sun
Nature assigns the Sun —
That — is Astronomy —
Nature cannot enact a Friend —
That — is Astrology.
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“Nature assigns the Sun” by Emily Dickinson — quilloak.com/poems/nature-assigns-the-sun
Quick facts
- Poem
- Nature assigns the Sun
- Poet
- Emily Dickinson
- Length
- 4 lines
- Form
- Lyric Poem, Short Poems
- Themes
- Friendship, Short
Craft notes
How this poem works
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- Shape
- 4 lines · one 4-line stanza
- End rhyme
- No regular perfect end rhyme. The poem may still be using slant rhyme, assonance, or internal echo, which this check does not score.
- Line length
- Short metre. Two short lines, one longer, one short (6.6.8.6) — the short hymn stanza.
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- Author record
- Emily Dickinson1830–1886
- Source record
- PoetryDBNature assigns the Sun by emily-dickinson, PoetryDB transcription
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- Not recorded in the imported source
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 0a26f91e9ba7b991…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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