Analysis of Some things that fly there be
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Some things that fly there be—
Birds—Hours—the Bumblebee—
Of these no Elegy.
Some things that stay there be—
Grief—Hills—Eternity-
Nor this behooveth me.
There are that resting, rise.
Can I expound the skies?
How still the Riddle lies!
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111111 11001 111100 111111 110100 1111 111101 110101 110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 250 |
| Words | 40 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 61 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 30, 2023
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