Analysis of Delight is as the flight
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Delight is as the flight—
Or in the Ratio of it,
As the Schools would say—
The Rainbow's way—
A Skein
Flung colored, after Rain,
Would suit as bright,
Except that flight
Were Aliment—
"If it would last"
I asked the East,
When that Bent Stripe
Struck up my childish
Firmament—
And I, for glee,
Took Rainbows, as the common way,
And empty Skies
The Eccentricity—
And so with Lives—
And so with Butterflies—
Seen magic—through the fright
That they will cheat the sight—
And Dower latitudes far on—
Some sudden morn—
Our portion—in the fashion—
Done—
Scheme | AXBBCCAAA XXXXADBED XEAAXXFF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011101 1001011 10111 011 01 110101 1111 0111 01 1111 1101 1111 11110 1 0111 1110101 0101 00100 0111 01110 110101 111101 011011 1101 10100010 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 559 |
Words | 99 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 9, 8 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 141 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 11, 2023
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