Analysis of Sweet, to have had them lost
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Sweet, to have had them lost
For news that they be saved—
The nearer they departed Us
The nearer they, restored,
Shall stand to Our Right Hand—
Most precious and the Dead—
Next precious
Those that rose to go—
Then thought of Us, and stayed.
Scheme | XXAX XXAXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111 111111 01010101 010101 1111011 110001 110 11111 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 248 |
Words | 47 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 5 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 94 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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