Analysis of Her smile was shaped like other smiles
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Her smile was shaped like other smiles—
The Dimples ran along—
And still it hurt you, as some Bird
Did hoist herself, to sing,
Then recollect a Ball, she got—
And hold upon the Twig,
Convulsive, while the Music broke—
Like Beads—among the Bog—
| Scheme | ABCDEFGH |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01111101 010101 01111111 110111 1010111 010101 01010101 110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 256 |
| Words | 46 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 188 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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