Analysis of And this of all my Hopes
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
And this of all my Hopes
This, is the silent end
Bountiful colored, my Morning rose
Early and sere, its end
Never Bud from a Stem
Stepped with so gay a Foot
Never a Worm so confident
Bored at so brave a Root
Scheme | XAXA XXXX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
Metre | 011111 110101 100101101 100111 101101 111101 10011100 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 208 |
Words | 45 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 81 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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