Analysis of For largest Woman's Hearth I knew
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
For largest Woman's Hearth I knew—
'Tis little I can do—
And yet the largest Woman's Heart
Could hold an Arrow—too—
And so, instructed by my own,
I tenderer, turn Me to.
| Scheme | AABACA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11010111 110111 01010101 111101 01010111 11111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 180 |
| Words | 34 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 127 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 24, 2023
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