Analysis of The feet of people walking home
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
The feet of people walking home
With gayer sandals go—
The Crocus— til she rises
The Vassal of the snow—
The lips at Hallelujah
Long years of practise bore
Til bye and bye these Bargemen
Walked singing on the shore.
Pearls are the Diver's farthings
Extorted from the Sea—
Pinions— the Seraph's wagon
Pedestrian once— as we—
Night is the morning's Canvas
Larceny— legacy—
Death, but our rapt attention
To Immortality.
My figures fail to tell me
How far the Village lies—
Whose peasants are the Angels—
Whose Cantons dot the skies—
My Classics veil their faces—
My faith that Dark adores—
Which from its solemn abbeys
Such ressurection pours.
| Scheme | XABAXCDC BEDEXEDE EFXFBGBG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01110101 110101 0101110 010101 011010 11111 110111 110101 110101 010101 10110 0100111 1101010 100100 11101010 10100 1101111 110101 1101010 110101 1101110 111101 111101 111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 653 |
| Words | 112 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
| Lines Amount | 24 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 170 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 28, 2023
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