Analysis of Good night, because we must
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Good night, because we must,
How intricate the dust!
I would go, to know!
Oh incognito!
Saucy, Saucy Seraph
To elude me so!
Father! they won't tell me,
Won't you tell them to?
Scheme | AABBCBDE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110111 110001 11111 10010 10101 10111 101111 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 176 |
Words | 35 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 130 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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