Analysis of Fame is the tine that Scholars leave

Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)



Fame is the tine that Scholars leave
Upon their Setting Names—
The Iris not of Occident
That disappears as comes—


Scheme ABCD
Poetic Form
Metre 11011101 011101 0101110 10111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 122
Words 22
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 92
Words per stanza (avg) 20
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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