Lyric Poem · Autumn
No Autumn's intercepting Chill
No Autumn's intercepting Chill
Appalls this Tropic Breast —
But African Exuberance
And Asiatic rest.
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“No Autumn's intercepting Chill” by Emily Dickinson — quilloak.com/poems/no-autumns-intercepting-chill
Quick facts
- Poem
- No Autumn's intercepting Chill
- Poet
- Emily Dickinson
- Length
- 4 lines
- Form
- Lyric Poem, Short Poems
- Themes
- Autumn, Nature, Short
Craft notes
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- Shape
- 4 lines · one 4-line stanza
- Line length
- Lines run 5-8 syllables (median 8), consistent with tetrameter. No single length dominates, which is normal once elision and contraction are in play.
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- Author record
- Emily Dickinson1830–1886
- Source record
- PoetryDBNo Autumn's intercepting Chill 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 4ad57c925e8f47ef…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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