Analysis of Bring me the sunset in a cup
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Bring me the sunset in a cup,
Reckon the morning's flagons up
And say how many Dew,
Tell me how far the morning leaps—
Tell me what time the weaver sleeps
Who spun the breadth of blue!
Write me how many notes there be
In the new Robin's ecstasy
Among astonished boughs—
How many trips the Tortoise makes—
How many cups the Bee partakes,
The Debauchee of Dews!
Also, who laid the Rainbow's piers,
Also, who leads the docile spheres
By withes of supple blue?
Whose fingers string the stalactite—
Who counts the wampum of the night
To see that none is due?
Who built this little Alban House
And shut the windows down so close
My spirit cannot see?
Who'll let me out some gala day
With implements to fly away,
Passing Pomposity?
| Scheme | AABCCB DDXXCX EEBBXB XXDFFD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101001 1001011 011101 11110101 11110101 110111 11110111 00110100 010101 11010101 1101011 0111 1011011 10110101 111101 110101 11010101 111111 11110101 01010111 110101 11111101 11001101 10100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 717 |
| Words | 136 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 24 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 143 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 30, 2023
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