Analysis of Whether my bark went down at sea
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Whether my bark went down at sea—
Whether she met with gales—
Whether to isles enchanted
She bent her docile sails—
By what mystic mooring
She is held today—
This is the errand of the eye
Out upon the Bay.
| Scheme | XAXA XBXB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 10111111 101111 1011010 110101 111010 11101 11010101 10101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 214 |
| Words | 42 |
| 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 April 10, 2023
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