Analysis of He fought like those Who've nought to lose
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
He fought like those Who've nought to lose—
Bestowed Himself to Balls
As One who for a further Life
Had not a further Use—
Invited Death—with bold attempt—
But Death was Coy of Him
As Other Men, were Coy of Death—
To Him—to live—was Doom—
His Comrades, shifted like the Flakes
When Gusts reverse the Snow—
But He—was left alive Because
Of Greediness to die—
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110111 010111 11110101 110101 01011101 111111 11010111 111111 1110101 110101 11110101 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 376 |
Words | 67 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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