Analysis of One Sister have I in our house
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
One Sister have I in our house,
And one, a hedge away.
There's only one recorded,
But both belong to me.
One came the road that I came—
And wore my last year's gown—
The other, as a bird her nest,
Builded our hearts among.
She did not sing as we did—
It was a different tune—
Herself to her a music
As Bumble bee of June.
Today is far from Childhood—
But up and down the hills
I held her hand the tighter—
Which shortened all the miles—
And still her hum
The years among,
Deceives the Butterfly;
Still in her Eye
The Violets lie
Mouldered this many May.
I spilt the dew—
But took the morn—
I chose this single star
From out the wide night's numbers—
Sue - forevermore!
Scheme | XAXX XXXB XCXC XXDX XBEEEA XXXXD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110110101 010101 1101010 110111 1101111 011111 01010101 110101 1111111 1101001 0110010 110111 011111 110101 1101010 110101 0101 0101 1010 1001 01001 11101 1101 1101 111101 1101110 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 670 |
Words | 134 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 6, 5 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 85 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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