Analysis of The Winters are so short
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
The Winters are so short—
I'm hardly justified
In sending all the Birds away—
And moving into Pod—
Myself—for scarcely settled—
The Phoebes have begun—
And then—it's time to strike my Tent—
And open House—again—
It's mostly, interruptions—
My Summer—is despoiled—
Because there was a Winter—once—
And al the Cattle—starved—
And so there was a Deluge—
And swept the World away—
But Ararat's a Legend—now—
And no one credits Noah—
Scheme | AXBX XXXX XAXX XBXX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (25%) |
Metre | 010111 11010 01010101 010011 111010 01101 01111111 010101 110010 11011 01110101 010101 0111010 010101 110101 0111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 465 |
Words | 72 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 83 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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