Analysis of Empty my Heart, of Thee
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Empty my Heart, of Thee—
Its single Artery—
Begin, and leave Thee out—
Simply Extinction's Date—
Much Billow hath the Sea—
One Baltic—They—
Subtract Thyself, in play,
And not enough of me
Is left—to put away—
"Myself" meanth Thee—
Erase the Root—no Tree—
Thee—then—no me—
The Heavens stripped—
Eternity's vast pocket, picked—
| Scheme | AAXX ABBABA AAXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101111 110100 010111 1011 110101 1101 01101 010111 111101 111 010111 1111 0101 11101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 354 |
| Words | 54 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 6, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 83 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 17, 2023
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