Analysis of A throe upon the features
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
A throe upon the features—
A hurry in the breath—
An ecstasy of parting
Denominated "Death"—
An anguish at the mention
Which when to patience grown,
I've known permission given
To rejoin its own.
| Scheme | XAXA BCBC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 0101010 010001 1100110 01001 1101010 111101 1101010 10111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 202 |
| Words | 36 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 77 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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