Analysis of An altered look about the hills
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
An altered look about the hills—
A Tyrian light the village fills—
A wider sunrise in the morn—
A deeper twilight on the lawn—
A print of a vermillion foot—
A purple finger on the slope—
A flippant fly upon the pane—
A spider at his trade again—
An added strut in Chanticleer—
A flower expected everywhere—
An axe shrill singing in the woods—
Fern odors on untravelled roads—
All this and more I cannot tell—
A furtive look you know as well—
And Nicodemus' Mystery
Receives its annual reply!
| Scheme | AABCDEFGHHIJKKHL |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11010101 0110101 0101001 0101101 01100101 01010101 01010101 01011101 110101 01001010 11110001 110111 11011101 01011111 01100 01110001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 512 |
| Words | 92 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 16 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 386 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 90 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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