Analysis of To offer brave assistance
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
To offer brave assistance
To Lives that stand alone—
When One has failed to stop them—
Is Human—but Divine
To lend an Ample Sinew
Unto a Nameless Man—
Whose Homely Benediction
No other—stopped to earn—
Scheme | XAXX AXXX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
Metre | 1101010 111101 1111111 110101 111101 100101 110010 110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 214 |
Words | 37 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 81 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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