Lyric Poem · Nature
The fairest Home I ever knew
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“The fairest Home I ever knew” by Emily Dickinson — quilloak.com/poems/the-fairest-home-i-ever-knew
Quick facts
- Poem
- The fairest Home I ever knew
- Poet
- Emily Dickinson
- Length
- 5 lines
- Form
- Lyric Poem, Short Poems
- Themes
- Nature, Short
Craft notes
How this poem works
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- Shape
- 5 lines · one 5-line stanza
- Line length
- Mostly 8-syllable lines (tetrameter length).
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Text, source & rights
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- Author record
- Emily Dickinson1830–1886
- Source record
- PoetryDBThe fairest Home I ever knew 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 14bba8b1a301c632…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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