Analysis of The Soul's distinct connection
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
The Soul's distinct connection
With immortality
Is best disclosed by Danger
Or quick Calamity—
As Lightning on a Landscape
Exhibits Sheets of Place—
Not yet suspected—but for Flash—
And Click—and Suddenness.
Scheme | XAXA XXXX |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
Metre | 0101010 10100 1101110 110100 110101 010111 11010111 010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 218 |
Words | 33 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 85 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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