Analysis of Come Slowly
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Come slowly,
Eden
Lips unused to thee.
Bashful, sip thy jasmines,
As the fainting bee,
Reaching late his flower,
Round her chamber hums,
Counts his nectars -alights,
And is lost in balms!
| Scheme | ABACADCCC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Nonet (22%) |
| Metre | 110 10 10111 10111 10101 101110 10101 1111 01101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 187 |
| Words | 34 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 146 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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