Analysis of As far from pity, as complaint
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
As far from pity, as complaint—
As cool to speech—as stone—
As numb to Revelation
As if my Trade were Bone—
As far from time—as History—
As near yourself—Today—
As Children, to the Rainbow's scarf—
Or Sunset's Yellow play
To eyelids in the Sepulchre—
How dumb the Dancer lies—
While Color's Revelations break—
And blaze—the Butterflies!
| Scheme | XAXA BCXC BDXD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11110101 111111 111010 111101 11111100 110101 1101011 11101 11001 110101 110101 01010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 359 |
| Words | 58 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 87 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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