Analysis of The Angle of a Landscape
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
The Angle of a Landscape—
That every time I wake—
Between my Curtain and the Wall
Upon an ample Crack—
Like a Venetian—waiting—
Accosts my open eye—
Is just a Bough of Apples—
Held slanting, in the Sky—
The Pattern of a Chimney—
The Forehead of a Hill—
Sometimes—a Vane's Forefinger—
But that's—Occasional—
The Seasons—shift—my Picture—
Upon my Emerald Bough,
I wake—to find no—Emeralds—
Then—Diamonds-which the Snow
From Polar Caskets—fetched me—
The Chimney—and the Hill—
And just the Steeple's finger—
These—never stir at all—
Scheme | XXAX XBXB CDEX EXXX CDEA |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (35%) Quatrain (20%) |
Metre | 010101 1100111 01110001 011101 1001010 11101 1101110 110001 0101010 010101 010110 110100 0101110 011101 1111110 110101 1101011 010001 010110 110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 575 |
Words | 86 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 82 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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