Read the following poem by Emily Dickinson.


This is my letter to the World

That never wrote to Me—

The simple News that Nature told—

With tender Majesty


Her Message is committed

To Hands I cannot see—

For love of Her—Sweet—countrymen—

Judge tenderly—of Me

What statement is true?



The poet uses the rhyme scheme abab.


The poet uses dashes to slow readers down as they read through the poem.


The second verse is an example of a heroic quatrain.


This is a verse from an elegy.