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THE RAT by EMILY DICKINSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: THE RAT IS THE CONCISEST TENANT
Last Line: EQUILIBRIUM.
Subject(s): RATS;

THE rat is the concisest tenant.
He pays no rent, --
Repudiates the obligation,
On schemes intent.

Balking our wit
To sound or circumvent,
Hate cannot harm
A foe so reticent.

Neither decree
Prohibits him,
Lawful as
Equilibrium.



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