Analysis of He who in Himself believes
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
He who in Himself believes—
Fraud cannot presume—
Faith is Constancy's Result—
And assumes—from Home—
Cannot perish, though it fail
Every second time—
But defaced Vicariously—
For Some Other Shame—
| Scheme | XXXX XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1100101 11001 11101 00111 1010111 100101 10101000 11101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 214 |
| Words | 32 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 79 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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