Analysis of The Chemical conviction
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
The Chemical conviction
That Nought be lost
Enable in Disaster
My fractured Trust—
The Faces of the Atoms
If I shall see
How more the Finished Creatures
Departed me!
| Scheme | XXXX XAXA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 0100010 1111 0100010 1101 0101010 1111 1101010 0101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 168 |
| Words | 31 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 68 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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