I knew that I had gained
And yet I knew not how
By Diminution it was not
But Discipline unto
A Rigor unrelieved
Except by the Content
Another bear its Duplicate
In other Continent.
I knew that I had gained
Analysis, meaning and summary of Emily Dickinson's poem I knew that I had gained
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