Analysis of Color—Caste—Denomination
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Color—Caste—Denomination—
These—are Time's Affair—
Death's diviner Classifying
Does not know they are—
As in sleep—All Hue forgotten—
Tenets—put behind—
Death's large—Democratic fingers
Rub away the Brand—
If Circassian—He is careless—
If He put away
Chrysalis of Blonde—or Umber—
Equal Butterfly—
They emerge from His Obscuring—
What Death—knows so well—
Our minuter intuitions—
Deem unplausible—
| Scheme | ABCX AXDX XXBE CXDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (25%) |
| Metre | 1010010 11101 11100 11111 10111010 10101 1101010 10101 111110 11101 1001111 1010 10111010 11111 1011 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 434 |
| Words | 56 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 80 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 13, 2023
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