Analysis of Give little Anguish
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Give little Anguish—
Lives will fret—
Give Avalanches—
And they'll slant—
Straighten—look cautious for their Breath—
But make no syllable—like Death—
Who only shows the Marble Disc—
Sublimer sort—than Speech—
| Scheme | ABCDEEFG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11010 111 1100 011 10110111 11110011 11010101 1111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 231 |
| Words | 32 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 167 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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