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THE TREASON OF AN ACCENT by EMILY DICKINSON

Poet Analysis

Last Line: Of Sanctity to be

The Treason of an accent
Might Ecstasy transfer -
Of her effacing Fathom
Is no Recoverer -

The Treason of an Accent
Might vilify the Joy -
To breathe - corrode the rapture
Of Sanctity to be



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