Analysis of Should you but fail at—Sea
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Should you but fail at—Sea—
In sight of me—
Or doomed lie—
Next Sun—to die—
Or rap—at Paradise—unheard
I'd harass God
Until he let you in!
| Scheme | AABBCDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111111 0111 111 1111 1111001 1011 011110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 156 |
| Words | 28 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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