Analysis of How happy I was if I could forget
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
How happy I was if I could forget
To remember how sad I am
Would be an easy adversity
But the recollecting of Bloom
Keeps making November difficult
Till I who was almost bold
Lose my way like a little Child
And perish of the cold.
| Scheme | XXXX XAXA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 1101111101 10101111 111100100 1001011 110010100 111111 11110101 010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 231 |
| Words | 48 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 29, 2023
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