Analysis of Apparently with no Surprise
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Apparently with no surprise,
To any happy flower,
The frost beheads it at its play,
In accidental power.
The blond assassin passes on.
The sun proceeds unmoved,
To measure off another day,
For an approving God.
| Scheme | ABCBDECF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01001101 1101010 0111111 001010 01010101 010101 11010101 110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 212 |
| Words | 38 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 167 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 12, 2023
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