Analysis of As imperceptibly as Grief

Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)



As imperceptibly as Grief
The Summer lapsed away—
Too imperceptible at last
To seem like Perfidy—
A Quietness distilled
As Twilight long begun,
Or Nature spending with herself
Sequestered Afternoon—
The Dusk drew earlier in—
The Morning foreign shone—
A courteous, yet harrowing Grace,
As Guest, that would be gone—
And thus, without a Wing
Or service of a Keel
Our Summer made her light escape
Into the Beautiful.


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Poetic Form
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Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 419
Words 71
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 334
Words per stanza (avg) 69
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 30, 2023

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