Analysis of A loss of something ever felt I

Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)



A loss of something ever felt I—
The first that I could recollect
Bereft I was—of what I knew not
Too young that any should suspect

A Mourner walked among the children
I notwithstanding went about
As one bemoaning a Dominion
Itself the only Prince cast out—

Elder, Today, a session wiser
And fainter, too, as Wiseness is—
I find myself still softly searching
For my Delinguent Palaces—

And a Suspicion, like a Finger
Touches my Forehead now and then
That I am looking oppositely
For the site of the Kingdom of Heaven—


Scheme XAXA BCBC DXXX DXXB
Poetic Form Quatrain  (50%)
Metre 011101011 0111101 011111111 11110101 010101010 1010101 110100010 01010111 100101010 0101111 11111010 111100 000101010 10110101 111101 1011010110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 522
Words 95
Sentences 1
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 104
Words per stanza (avg) 23
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 22, 2023

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