Analysis of Flowers—Well—if anybody
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Flowers—Well—if anybody
Can the ecstasy define—
Half a transport—half a trouble—
With which flowers humble men:
Anybody find the fountain
From which floods so contra flow—
I will give him all the Daisies
Which upon the hillside blow.
Too much pathos in their faces
For a simple breast like mine—
Butterflies from St. Domingo
Cruising round the purple line—
Have a system of aesthetics—
Far superior to mine.
| Scheme | XAXXXBXB XABAXA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10111000 1010001 10011010 1110101 10001010 1111101 11111010 101011 11100110 1010111 1011010 1010101 10101010 1010011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 420 |
| Words | 70 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 164 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 13, 2023
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