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There is an irregular pattern in this poem. The second stanza has six lines instead of the regular four lines that Emily Dickinson's poems usually have. This puts a great effect on the poem because there are two extra lines in it that grasp your attention. It's not that they're important lines or anything, but it adds more interest to the reader reading the poem. I think that she's talking about someone that she wants to forget, but if she does, she will be lost- just like when she says: Subtract Thyself, in play, And not enough of me Is left-- to put away-- Diskinson is also talking about the same thing in the last stanza when she talks about when you take the root away from the tree, there wouldn't be a tree anymore. In conclusion, I believe that this poem is relating to things that affect our lives, but then when we suddenly take those things that affect our lives so much out, we are suddenly lost. I think that Dickinson really does a good job of showing this in her poem. 1204162048