Analysis of She dealt her pretty words like Blades
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
She dealt her pretty words like Blades—
How glittering they shone—
And every One unbared a Nerve
Or wantoned with a Bone—
She never deemed—she hurt—
That—is not Steel's Affair—
A vulgar grimace in the Flesh—
How ill the Creatures bear—
To Ache is human—not polite—
The Film upon the eye
Mortality's old Custom—
Just locking up—to Die.
| Scheme | XAXA XBXB XCXC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11010111 110011 01001101 11101 110111 111101 01010001 110101 11110101 010101 1110 110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 357 |
| Words | 60 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 87 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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