Analysis of As if some little Arctic flower
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
As if some little Arctic flower
Upon the polar hem—
Went wandering down the Latitudes
Until it puzzled came
To continents of summer—
To firmaments of sun—
To strange, bright crowds of flowers—
And birds, of foreign tongue!
I say, As if this little flower
To Eden, wandered in—
What then? Why nothing,
Only, your inference therefrom!
| Scheme | ABCDAEFGAHIB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111101010 010101 11001010 011101 1100110 1111 1111110 011101 111111010 110100 11110 1011001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 339 |
| Words | 59 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 262 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 57 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 16, 2023
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