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
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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