Analysis of No Romance sold unto

Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)



No Romance sold unto
Could so enthrall a Man
As the perusal of
His Individual One—
'Tis Fiction's—When 'tis small enough
To Credit—'Tisn't true!


Scheme ABCDEA
Poetic Form
Metre 101110 11101 100101 101001 1111101 11011
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 153
Words 26
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 6
Lines Amount 6
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 112
Words per stanza (avg) 24
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 20, 2023

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