Analysis of A thought went up my mind to-day
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
A thought went up my mind to-day
That I have had before,
But did not finish,--some way back,
I could not fix the year,
Nor where it went, nor why it came
The second time to me,
Nor definitely what it was,
Have I the art to say.
But somewhere in my soul, I know
I've met the thing before;
It just reminded me--'t was all--
And came my way no more.
| Scheme | ABXX XXXA XBXB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (33%) |
| Metre | 01111111 111101 11110111 111101 11111111 010111 11000111 110111 1101111 110101 110101111 011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 343 |
| Words | 75 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 85 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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