Analysis of I breathed enough to learn the trick,
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
I breathed enough to learn the trick,
And now, removed from air,
I simulate the breath so well,
That one, to be quite sure
The lungs are stirless, must descend
Among the cunning cells,
And touch the pantomime himself.
How cool the bellows feels!
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11011101 010111 11000111 111111 0111101 010101 0101001 110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 258 |
| Words | 46 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 20, 2023
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