Analysis of Expectation—is Contentment
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Expectation—is Contentment—
Gain—Satiety—
But Satiety—Conviction
Of Necessity
Of an Austere trait in Pleasure—
Good, without alarm
Is a too established Fortune—
Danger—deepens Sum—
| Scheme | AABX XXBX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0101010 11 11010 10100 11011010 10101 10101010 10101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 199 |
| Words | 25 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 74 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 29, 2023
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