Analysis of The Admirations—and Contempts—of time

Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)



The Admirations—and Contempts—of time—
Show justest—through an Open Tomb—
The Dying—as it were a Height
Reorganizes Estimate
And what We saw not
We distinguish clear—
And mostly—see not
What We saw before—

'Tis Compound Vision—
Light—enabling Light—
The Finite—furnished
With the Infinite—
Convex—and Concave Witness—
Back—toward Time—
And forward—
Toward the God of Him—


Scheme AXBCDXDX XBXCXAXX
Poetic Form
Metre 00100111 1111101 01011001 0100100 01111 10101 01011 11101 11010 101001 0110 10100 0100110 1011 010 010111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 404
Words 56
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 8
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 149
Words per stanza (avg) 27
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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