Lyric Poem · Nature
She rose to His Requirement—dropt
She rose to His Requirement — dropt
The Playthings of Her Life
To take the honorable Work
Of Woman, and of Wife —
If ought She missed in Her new Day,
Of Amplitude, or Awe —
Or first Prospective — Or the Gold
In using, wear away,
It lay unmentioned — as the Sea
Develop Pearl, and Weed,
But only to Himself — be known
The Fathoms they abide —
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- Poem
- She rose to His Requirement—dropt
- Poet
- Emily Dickinson
- Length
- 12 lines
- Form
- Lyric Poem
- Themes
- Nature
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- Shape
- 12 lines · 3 quatrains
- Line length
- Common metre. Alternating eight- and six-syllable lines — the hymn stanza (8.6.8.6), the most-used quatrain in English verse.
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- Author record
- Emily Dickinson1830–1886
- Source record
- PoetryDBShe rose to His Requirement—dropt by emily-dickinson, PoetryDB transcription
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