Analysis of Perhaps you think me stooping

Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)



Perhaps you think me stooping
I'm not ashamed of that
Christ—stooped until He touched the Grave—
Do those at Sacrament

Commemorative Dishonor
Or love annealed of love
Until it bend as low as Death
Redignified, above?


Scheme XXXX XAXA
Poetic Form Quatrain  (50%)
Metre 0111110 110111 11011101 111100 0100010 11111 01111111 101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 221
Words 38
Sentences 2
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 88
Words per stanza (avg) 18
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 22, 2023

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