Analysis of Each life converges to some centre

Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)



Each life converges to some centre
Expressed or still;
Exists in every human nature
A goal,

Admitted scarcely to itself, it may be,
Too fair
For credibility's temerity
To dare.

Adored with caution, as a brittle heaven,
To reach
Were hopeless as the rainbow's raiment
To touch,

Yet persevered toward, surer for the distance;
How high
Unto the saints' slow diligence
The sky!

Ungained, it may be, by a life's low venture,
But then,
Eternity enables the endeavoring
Again.


Scheme AXAX BCBC XXXX DEDE AFXF
Poetic Form Quatrain  (60%)
Tetractys  (50%)
Etheree  (20%)
Metre 1111110 0111 0101001010 01 01010101111 11 110100 11 01110101010 11 0101011 11 10101101010 11 10011100 01 1111101110 11 010001000100 01
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 458
Words 81
Sentences 4
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 74
Words per stanza (avg) 16
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 30, 2023

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