Analysis of Light is sufficient to itself
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Light is sufficient to itself—
If Others want to see
It can be had on Window Panes
Some Hours in the Day.
But not for Compensation—
It holds as large a Glow
To Squirrel in the Himmaleh
Precisely, as to you.
| Scheme | XXXX XAAX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11010101 110111 11111101 110001 111010 111101 110001 010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 211 |
| Words | 43 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 81 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 06, 2023
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