Analysis of Funny—to be a Century
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Funny—to be a Century—
And see the People—going by—
I—should die of the Oddity—
But then—I'm not so staid—as He—
He keeps His Secrets safely—very—
Were He to tell—extremely sorry
This Bashful Globe of Ours would be—
So dainty of Publicity—
| Scheme | AXAA AAAA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 10110100 01010101 11110100 11111111 111101010 011101010 110111011 11010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 268 |
| Words | 43 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 23, 2023
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