Analysis of Be Mine the Doom—

Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)



Be Mine the Doom—
Sufficient Fame—
To perish in Her Hand!


Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Tercet 
Metre 1101 0101 110001
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 67
Words 13
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 44
Words per stanza (avg) 11
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 18, 2023

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