Emily Dickinson's 'As Imperceptibly As Grief'

“Consonance refers to repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase.” http://literarydevices.net/consonance/ “A Quietness distilled
As Twilight long begun,
Or Nature spending with herself
Sequestered Afternoon–“ “As Imperceptibly as Grief”

Emily Dickinson The poem is trying to get you to feel the how quiet and peaceful an afternoon is. Billy buys booze from Bick.
“An independent clause followed by a series of subordinate constructions (phrases or clauses) that gather details about a person, place, event, or idea.” http://grammar.about.com/od/c/g/cumulativesentencegloss.htm “I write this at a wide desk in a pine shed as I always do these recent years, in this life I pray will last, while the summer sun closes the sky to Orion and to all the other winter stars over my roof.” “An American Childhood”

The man slept as his desk, as he had come home to his house being up in flames, and his wife gone.
“A rhetorical term for the repetition of a word or phrase broken up by one or more intervening words.” http://grammar.about.com/od/d/g/diacopeterm.htm “I hate to be poor, and we are degradingly poor, offensively poor, miserably poor, beastly poor.” “Our Mutual Friend”
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