Analysis of Unable are the Loved to die
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Unable are the Loved to die
For Love is Immortality,
Nay, it is Deity—
Unable they that love—to die
For Love reforms Vitality
Into Divinity.
| Scheme | ABB ABB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01010111 1110100 111100 01011111 11010100 010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 147 |
| Words | 27 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 56 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 30, 2023
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