Analysis of Before He comes we weigh the Time!
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Before He comes we weigh the Time!
'Tis Heavy and 'tis Light.
When He depart, an Emptiness
Is the prevailing Freight.
| Scheme | ABCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01111101 110011 11011100 100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 122 |
| Words | 23 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 12, 2023
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