I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed Key Info
- Author: Emily Dickinson
- Written: 1861
- Published: First published in the Springfield Daily Republican (May 4, 1861)
- Poem Type: Lyric poem
- Themes: Joy in nature, intoxication with life, transcendence
- Form: Four quatrains (four-line stanzas, 16 lines total)
- Rhyme Scheme: Irregular/slant rhyme, loosely ABCB pattern
- Meter: Common meter (iambic tetrameter/trimeter) with variations
- Tone: Joyful, celebratory, whimsical, playful
- Imagery: Nature described through metaphors of drinking and revelry