Analysis of The last Night that She lived
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
The last Night that She lived
It was a Common Night
Except the Dying—this to Us
Made Nature different
We noticed smallest things—
Things overlooked before
By this great light upon our Minds
Italicized—as 'twere.
As We went out and in
Between Her final Room
And Rooms where Those to be alive
Tomorrow were, a Blame
That Others could exist
While She must finish quite
A Jealousy for Her arose
So nearly infinite—
We waited while She passed—
It was a narrow time—
Too jostled were Our Souls to speak
At length the notice came.
She mentioned, and forgot—
Then lightly as a Reed
Bent to the Water, struggled scarce—
Consented, and was dead—
And We—We placed the Hair—
And drew the Head erect—
And then an awful leisure was
Belief to regulate—
Scheme | XAXX XBXB XXXC XAXX XXXC XXXX XXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011111 110101 01010111 110100 110101 11001 111101101 111 111100 010101 01111101 01001 110101 111101 01001001 110100 110111 110101 110010111 110101 110001 110101 11010101 010011 011101 010101 01110101 01110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 744 |
Words | 135 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 84 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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