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—


Scheme XXXX XXXX XXXX
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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