Analysis of As if the Sea should part
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
As if the Sea should part
And show a further Sea—
And that—a further—and the Three
But a presumption be—
Of Periods of Seas—
Unvisited of Shores—
Themselves the Verge of Seas to be—
Eternity—is Those—
| Scheme | XAAA XXAX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110111 010101 01010001 100101 110011 111 01011111 010011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 219 |
| Words | 38 |
| 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) | 78 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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