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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Metre | 1010011 010101 1010011 111100 010001 11101 11010101 01001 0111000 010101 010011001 111111 010101 110101 101010101 010100 |
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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