Analysis of Chartless
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
I never saw a moor,
I never saw the sea;
Yet now I know how the heather looks
And what a wave must be.
I never spoke with God,
Nor visited in Heaven;
Yet certain am I of the spot
As if the chart were given.
| Scheme | XAXA XBXB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 110101 110101 111110101 010111 110111 1100010 11011101 1101010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 220 |
| Words | 55 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 78 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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