Analysis of Heaven is what I cannot reach!
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Heaven is what I cannot reach!
The apple on the tree,
Provided it do hopelss hang,
That 'heaven' is, to me.
The color on the cruising cloud,
The interdicted ground
Behind the hill, the house behind, --
There Paradise is found!
| Scheme | XAXA XBXB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 10111101 010101 0101111 110111 01010101 01001 01010101 11011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 239 |
| Words | 43 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 87 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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