I'm nobody! Who are you?

I'm nobody! Who are you?

Original Text
Poems (1890-1896) by Emily Dickinson: A Facsimile Reproduction of the Original Volumes Issued in 1890, 1891, and 1896, with an Introduction by George Monteiro (Gainesville, Florida: Scholars' Facsimiles).
1I'm nobody! Who are you?
2Are you nobody, too?
3Then there's a pair of us -- don't tell!
4They'd banish us, you know.
5How dreary to be somebody!
6How public, like a frog
7To tell your name the livelong day
8To an admiring bog!

Notes

3] The existing manuscript version of poem 288 The Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson, edited by R. W. Franklin in two volumes (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1981: I, 209; fascicle 11; PS 1541 A1 1981 ROBA), moves "don't tell" to the beginning of line 4. Back to Line
7] day: the existing manuscript reads "June". Back to Line
Publication Start Year
1861
RPO poem Editors
Ian Lancashire
RPO Edition
RPO 1997
Rhyme
abcb (off-rhyme)