Analysis of My best Acquaintances are those
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
My best Acquaintances are those
With Whom I spoke no Word—
The Stars that stated come to Town
Esteemed Me never rude
Although to their Celestial Call
I failed to make reply—
My constant—reverential Face
Sufficient Courtesy.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGH |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11010011 111111 01110111 011101 1110101 111101 1100101 010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 230 |
| Words | 39 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 183 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 22, 2023
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