Analysis of The Months have ends—the Years—a knot
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
The Months have ends—the Years—a knot—
No Power can untie
To stretch a little further
A Skein of Misery—
The Earth lays back these tired lives
In her mysterious Drawers—
Too tenderly, that any doubt
An ultimate Repose—
The manner of the Children—
Who weary of the Day—
Themself—the noisy Plaything
They cannot put away—
| Scheme | XXXX XXXX XAXA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (33%) |
| Metre | 01110101 110101 1101010 011100 01111101 0001001 11001101 110001 0101010 110101 010101 110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 336 |
| Words | 57 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 85 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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