Analysis of A Prison gets to be a friend
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
A Prison gets to be a friend—
Between its Ponderous face
And Ours—a Kinsmanship express—
And in its narrow Eyes—
We come to look with gratitude
For the appointed Beam
It deal us—stated as our food—
And hungered for—the same—
We learn to know the Planks—
That answer to Our feet—
So miserable a sound—at first—
Nor ever now—so sweet—
As plashing in the Pools—
When Memory was a Boy—
But a Demurer Circuit—
A Geometric Joy—
The Posture of the Key
That interrupt the Day
To Our Endeavor—Not so real
The Check of Liberty—
As this Phantasm Steel—
Whose features—Day and Night—
Are present to us—as Our Own—
And as escapeless—quite—
The narrow Round—the Stint—
The slow exchange of Hope—
For something passiver—Content
Too steep for lookinp up—
The Liberty we knew
Avoided—like a Dream—
Too wide for any Night but Heaven—
If That—indeed—redeem—
Scheme | XXXX ABAX XCXC XDXD EXFE FGXG XXXX XBXB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
Metre | 01011101 0111001 0100101 001101 1111110 100101 111101101 01101 111101 1101101 110000111 110111 11001 1100101 10110 00101 010101 10101 110010111 011100 11101 110101 110111101 0111 010101 010111 110110 11111 010011 010101 111101110 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 891 |
Words | 147 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
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 05, 2023
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