Analysis of Experience is the Angled Road
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Experience is the Angled Road
Preferred against the Mind
By—Paradox—the Mind itself—
Presuming it to lead
Quite Opposite—How Complicate
The Discipline of Man—
Compelling Him to Choose Himself
His Preappointed Pain—
| Scheme | XXAX XXAX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010010101 010101 1100101 010111 1100110 010011 01011101 111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 227 |
| Words | 33 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 89 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 18, 2023
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