Lyric Poem · Summer
So much Summer
So much Summer
Me for showing
Illegitimate —
Would a Smile's minute bestowing
Too exorbitant
To the Lady
With the Guinea
Look — if She should know
Crumb of Mine
A Robin's Larder
Would suffice to stow —
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“So much Summer” by Emily Dickinson — quilloak.com/poems/so-much-summer
Quick facts
- Poem
- So much Summer
- Poet
- Emily Dickinson
- Length
- 11 lines
- Form
- Lyric Poem
- Themes
- Summer, Nature
Craft notes
How this poem works
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- Shape
- 11 lines · 2 stanzas of 5–6 lines
- Line length
- Lines run 4-5 syllables (median 5). 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
- PoetryDBSo much Summer 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 df7faaa347ad213a…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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