Analysis of Must be a Woe
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Must be a Woe—
A loss or so—
To bend the eye
Best Beauty's way—
But—once aslant
It notes Delight
As difficult
As Stalactite
A Common Bliss
Were had for less—
The price—is
Even as the Grace—
Our lord—thought no
Extravagance
To pay—a Cross—
| Scheme | AAXX BBBB XXXX AXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (60%) |
| Metre | 1101 0111 1101 111 111 1101 1100 11 0101 0111 011 10101 10111 0100 1101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 252 |
| Words | 46 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 12 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 46 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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