Analysis of Could I—then—shut the door
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Could I—then—shut the door—
Lest my beseeching face—at last—
Rejected—be—of Her?
| Scheme | ABC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tercet |
| Metre | 111101 11010111 010110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 100 |
| Words | 13 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3 |
| Lines Amount | 3 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 62 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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