Analysis of Sunset at Night—is natural
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Sunset at Night—is natural—
But Sunset on the Dawn
Reverses Nature—Master—
So Midnight's—due—at Noon.
Eclipses be—predicted—
And Science bows them in—
But do one face us suddenly—
Jehovah's Watch—is wrong.
| Scheme | XXXX XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111100 11101 0101010 11111 0101010 010110 11111100 010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 228 |
| Words | 32 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 81 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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