Emily's poems were made to appear like traditional nineteenth-century verse. Her use of rhyme was not exact rhyme. She used the rhyme that was later used in the nineteenth-century. Emily's works were first known not to be understood, with her use of reverse phrases. Even so editors had to add conjunctions, prepositions, and articles to her poems so that they could be easily understood. She would drop endings from verbs and nouns, in which she changed the functions of. Her frequent use of the dash to emphasize and indicate a missing word made the poems hard to understand on paper, but after a session of out-loud reading, could be understood. The materials and subject matter of her poetry are conventional. Her poems are filled with robins, bees, winter light, household items, and domestic duties. Emily loved to use ambiguity as a part of her style. That way, the reader takes part in the poem as well. In addition, her ambiguity allowed readers to come up with their own conclusions about the poem.