Analysis of I haven't told my garden yet
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
I haven't told my garden yet—
Lest that should conquer me.
I haven't quite the strength now
To break it to the Bee—
I will not name it in the street
For shops would stare at me—
That one so shy—so ignorant
Should have the face to die.
The hillsides must not know it—
Where I have rambled so—
Nor tell the loving forests
The day that I shall go—
Nor lisp it at the table—
Nor heedless by the way
Hint that within the Riddle
One will walk today—
| Scheme | XAXA XAXX XBXB CDCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
| Metre | 11011101 111101 1101011 111101 11111001 111111 11111100 110111 011111 111101 1101010 011111 1111010 11101 1101010 11101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 454 |
| Words | 92 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 85 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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