Analysis of Death sets a thing of signigicant
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Death sets a thing significant
The eye had hurried by,
Except a perished creature
Entreat us tenderly
To ponder little workmanships
In crayon or in wool,
With 'This was last her fingers did,'
Industrious until
The thimble weighed too heavy,
The stitches stopped themselves,
And then 't was put among the dust
Upon the closet shelves.
A book I have, a friend gave,
Whose pencil, here and there,
Had notched the place that pleased him,--
At rest his fingers are.
Now, when I read, I read not,
For interrupting tears
Obliterate the etchings
Too costly for repairs.
Scheme | XXXA BXXX ABXB XXXX XBBB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (40%) Etheree (25%) |
Metre | 11010100 011101 0101010 11100 110101 01101 11110101 010001 0101110 010101 011110101 010101 0111011 110101 1101111 111101 1111111 10101 010010 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 550 |
Words | 101 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 89 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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