Analysis of Exultation is the going
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Exultation is the going
Of an inland soul to sea,
Past the houses—past the headlands—
Into deep Eternity—
Bred as we, among the mountains,
Can the sailor understand
The divine intoxication
Of the first league out from land?
| Scheme | XAAA XBXB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 11010 111111 1010101 0110100 11101010 101001 0010010 1011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 230 |
| Words | 40 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 90 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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