Analysis of All the letters I can write
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
All the letters I can write
Are not fair as this—
Syllables of Velvet—
Sentences of Plush,
Depths of Ruby, undrained,
Hid, Lip, for Thee—
Play it were a Humming Bird—
And just sipped—me—
| Scheme | ABCDAEFE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010111 11111 100110 10011 11101 1111 1100101 0111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 199 |
| Words | 36 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 142 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 30, 2023
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