Analysis of My Eye is fuller than my vase
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
My Eye is fuller than my vase—
Her Cargo—is of Dew—
And still—my Heart—my Eye outweighs—
East India—for you!
Scheme | ABCB |
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Poetic Form | Ballad stanza Quatrain Simple 4-line |
Metre | 11110111 01111 0111111 110011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 127 |
Words | 21 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 82 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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