Analysis of None can experience sting
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
None can experience sting
Who Bounty—have not known—
The fact of Famine—could not be
Except for Fact of Corn—
Want—is a meagre Art
Acquired by Reverse—
The Poverty that was not Wealth—
Cannot be Indigence.
| Scheme | XXXX XAXA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 1101001 110111 01110111 011111 11011 010101 01001111 1011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 220 |
| Words | 37 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 82 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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