Analysis of Adrift! A little boat adrift!
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Adrift! A little boat adrift!
And night is coming down!
Will no one guide a little boat
Unto the nearest town?
So Sailors say—on yesterday—
Just as the dusk was brown
One little boat gave up its strife
And gurgled down and down.
So angels say—on yesterday—
Just as the dawn was red
One little boat—o'erspent with gales—
Retrimmed its masts—redecked its sails—
And shot—exultant on!
| Scheme | XAXA BAXA BXCCX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01010101 011101 11110101 100101 1101110 110111 11011111 01101 1101110 110111 1101111 111111 010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 395 |
| Words | 68 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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