Analysis of A long, long sleep, a famous sleep
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
A long, long sleep, a famous sleep
That makes no show for dawn
By strech of limb or stir of lid, --
An independent one.
Was ever idleness like this?
Within a hut of stone
To bask the centuries away
Nor once look up for noon?
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01110101 111111 11111111 10101 11010011 010111 11010001 111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 225 |
| Words | 48 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 86 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 31, 2023
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