Analysis of Our share of night to bear
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Our share of night to bear—
Our share of morning—
Our blank in bliss to fill
Our blank in scorning—
Here a star, and there a star,
Some lose their way!
Here a mist, and there a mist,
Afterwards—Day!
| Scheme | XAXA XBXB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1011111 101110 1010111 10101 1010101 1111 1010101 1001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 207 |
| Words | 41 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 75 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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