The poem "If you were coming in the Fall" was written by Emily Dickinson. Through her career she innovated brief conceptualized poetry that explored inner emotional concepts such as love, death, and longing. Like other poems, "If you were coming in the Fall" talks about the speaker’s love and how she waits him to return.
It can be assumed that the speaker is a female because it was written in 1st person and the author, Dickinson, is a woman. Also, the speaker uses words and metaphors that can lead to this assumption like, “As Housewives do”. The lines, “I’d wind the months in balls — And put them each in separate Drawers,” represent balls of yarn and usually women use it.
The speaker is sure that she loves the person