Analysis of As by the dead we love to sit
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
As by the dead we love to sit,
Become so wondrous dear—
As for the lost we grapple
Tho' all the rest are here—
In broken mathematics
We estimate our prize
Vast—in its fading ration
To our penurious eyes!
| Scheme | XXXX XAXA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 11011111 011101 1101110 110111 010010 1100101 1011010 1101001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 210 |
| Words | 41 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 80 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 27, 2023
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