Analysis of Away from Home are some and I—
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Away from Home are some and I—
An Emigrant to be
In a Metropolis of Homes
Is easy, possibly—
The Habit of a Foreign Sky
We—difficult—acquire
As Children, who remain in Face
The more their Feet retire.
| Scheme | ABXB AXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 01111101 110011 00010011 110100 01010101 1100010 11010101 011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 209 |
| Words | 39 |
| 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) | 79 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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