Analysis of Much Madness is divinest Sense
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Much Madness is divinest Sense -
To a discerning Eye -
Much Sense - the starkest Madness -
`Tis the Majority
In this, as All, prevail -
Assent - and you are sane -
Demur - you`re straightaway dangerous -
And handled with a Chain -
| Scheme | ABCDEFCF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110111 100101 110110 100100 011101 010111 01110100 010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 231 |
| Words | 48 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 173 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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