Analysis of Her final summer was it,
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Her final summer was it,
And yet we guessed it not;
If tenderer industriousness
Pervaded her, we thought
A further force of life
Developed from within,--
When Death lit all the shortness up,
And made the hurry plain.
We wondered at our blindness,--
When nothing was to see
But her Carrara guide-post,--
At our stupidity
When, duller than our dulness,
The busy darling lay,
So busy was she, finishing,
So leisurely were we!
| Scheme | XXAX XXXX AAXB AXXB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (25%) |
| Metre | 0101011 011111 111 010011 010111 010101 11110101 010101 11011010 110111 101011 1100100 1101101 010101 11011100 110001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 415 |
| Words | 78 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 82 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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