Analysis of By a flower—By a letter
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
By a flower—By a letter—
By a nimble love—
If I weld the Rivet faster—
Final fast—above—
Never mind my breathless Anvil!
Never mind Repose!
Never mind the sooty faces
Tugging at the Forge!
Scheme | ABAB XXXX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
Metre | 10101010 10101 11101010 10101 10111010 10101 10101010 10101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 201 |
Words | 36 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 73 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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