Analysis of Behind Me—dips Eternity
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Behind Me—dips Eternity—
Before Me—Immortality—
Myself—the Term between—
Death but the Drift of Eastern Gray,
Dissolving into Dawn away,
Before the West begin—
'Tis Kingdoms—afterward—they say—
In perfect—pauseless Monarchy—
Whose Prince—is Son of None—
Himself—His Dateless Dynasty—
Himself—Himself diversify—
In Duplicate divine—
'Tis Miracle before Me—then—
'Tis Miracle behind—between—
A Crescent in the Sea—
With Midnight to the North of Her—
And Midnight to the South of Her—
And Maelstrom—in the Sky—
Scheme | AABCCX CAXADX XBAEED |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01110100 0110100 10101 11011101 01001101 010101 11010011 0011100 111111 0111100 0101010 010001 11000111 11000101 010001 1110110 0110110 010001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 554 |
Words | 74 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 134 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 04, 2023
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