Analysis of An everywhere of silver
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
An everywhere of silver,
With ropes of sand
To keep it from effacing
The track called land.
| Scheme | ABCB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Ballad stanza Quatrain Simple 4-line |
| Metre | 110110 1111 1111010 0111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 96 |
| Words | 19 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 73 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 06, 2023
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