Question

we slowly drove — he knew no haste
and i had put away
my labor and my leisure too,
for his civility —
—\because i could not stop for death,\
emily dickinson

dickinsons poem is written in past tense
complete
the past tense in this poem is

• simple
• progressive
• perfect
• perfect progressive

Explanation:

The poem uses verbs like "drove", "knew", "put" which are simple past tense forms (no auxiliary verbs, no -ing endings, no "have/had + past participle" structure that marks perfect or progressive tenses).

Answer:

simple