Analysis of When One has given up One's life
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
When One has given up One's life
The parting with the rest
Feels easy, as when Day lets go
Entirely the West
The Peaks, that lingered last
Remain in Her regret
As scarcely as the Iodine
Upon the Cataract.
| Scheme | XAXA XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 11110111 010101 11011111 010001 011101 010001 1101010 010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 205 |
| Words | 41 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 81 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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