Analysis of Further in Summer than the Birds
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Further in Summer than the Birds
Pathetic from the Grass
A minor Nation celebrates
Its unobtrusive Mass.
No Ordinance be seen
So gradual the Grace
A pensive Custom it becomes
Enlarging Loneliness.
Antiquest felt at Noon
When August burning low
Arise this spectral Canticle
Repose to typify
Remit as yet no Grace
No Furrow on the Glow
Yet a Druidic Difference
Enhances Nature now
| Scheme | XAXA XBXX XCCX BCXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (25%) |
| Metre | 10010101 010101 0101010 10101 110011 110001 01010101 010100 1111 110101 01111 01110 011111 110101 101100 010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 371 |
| Words | 66 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 78 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 17, 2023
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