Analysis of When I was small, a Woman died
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
When I was small, a Woman died—
Today—her Only Boy
Went up from the Potomac—
His face all Victory
To look at her—How slowly
The Seasons must have turned
Till Bullets clipt an Angle
And He passed quickly round—
If pride shall be in Paradise—
Ourself cannot decide—
Of their imperial Conduct—
No person testified—
But, proud in Apparition—
That Woman and her Boy
Pass back and forth, before my Brain
As even in the sky—
I'm confident that Bravoes—
Perpetual break abroad
For Braveries, remote as this
In Scarlet Maryland—
Scheme | ABXC CXXX DAXA XBXX DXXX |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (40%) Quatrain (20%) |
Metre | 11110101 010101 1110010 111100 1110110 010111 1101110 011101 1111010 001101 11010001 11010 110010 110001 11010111 110001 110011 0100101 110111 010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 534 |
Words | 93 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 82 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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