Analysis of Going to Heaven!
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Going to Heaven!
I don't know when—
Pray do not ask me how!
Indeed I'm too astonished
To think of answering you!
Going to Heaven!
How dim it sounds!
And yet it will be done
As sure as flocks go home at night
Unto the Shepherd's arm!
Perhaps you're going too!
Who knows?
If you should get there first
Save just a little space for me
Close to the two I lost—
The smallest "Robe" will fit me
And just a bit of "Crown"—
For you know we do not mind our dress
When we are going home—
I'm glad I don't believe it
For it would stop my breath—
And I'd like to look a little more
At such a curious Earth!
I'm glad they did believe it
Whom I have never found
Since the might Autumn afternoon
I left them in the ground.
Scheme | AxxxbAxaxx bxxcxcxxx dxxxdexe |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10110 1111 111111 0111010 1111001 10110 1111 011111 11111111 100101 011101 11 111111 11010111 110111 0101111 010111 1111111101 111101 1111011 111111 011110101 1101001 1111011 111101 1011001 111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 699 |
Words | 147 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 9, 8 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 179 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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