Analysis of I meant to find Her when I came
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
I meant to find Her when I came—
Death—had the same design—
But the Success—was His—it seems—
And the Surrender—Mine—
I meant to tell Her how I longed
For just this single time—
But Death had told Her so the first—
And she had past, with Him—
To wander—now—is my Repose—
To rest—To rest would be
A privilege of Hurricane
To Memory—and Me.
| Scheme | XAXA XXXX XBXB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
| Metre | 11110111 110101 10011111 000101 11110111 111101 11110101 011111 11011101 111111 010110 110001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 367 |
| Words | 65 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 86 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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