Analysis of This is my letter to the world,
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
This is my letter to the world,
That never wrote to me,--
The simple news that Nature told,
With tender majesty.
Her message is committed
To hands I cannot see;
For love of her, sweet countrymen,
Judge tenderly of me!
| Scheme | XAXA XAXA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11110101 110111 01011101 110100 0101010 111101 11101100 110011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 230 |
| Words | 43 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 84 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 04, 2023
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