Analysis of A toad can die of light!
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
A toad can die of light!
Death is the common right
Of toads and men,--
Of earl and midge
The privilege.
Why swagger then?
The gnat's supremacy
Is large as thine.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011111 110101 1101 1101 010 1101 010100 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 188 |
Words | 34 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 123 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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