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 |
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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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