Analysis of It can't be "Summer"!
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
It can't be "Summer"!
That—got through!
It's early—yet—for "Spring"!
There's that long town of White—to cross—
Before the Blackbirds sing!
It can't be "Dying"!
It's too Rouge—
The Dead shall go in White—
So Sunset shuts my question down
With Cuffs of Chrysolite!
Scheme | ABCDCCEFGF |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (40%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11110 111 110111 11111111 010101 11110 111 011101 1111101 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 275 |
Words | 45 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 196 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 08, 2023
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