Analysis of How noteless Men, and Pleiads, stand
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
How noteless Men, and Pleiads, stand,
Until a sudden sky
Reveals the fact that One is rapt
Forever from the Eye—
Members of the Invisible,
Existing, while we stare,
In Leagueless Opportunity,
O'ertakenless, as the Air—
Why didn't we detain Them?
The Heavens with a smile,
Sweep by our disappointed Heads
Without a syllable—
Scheme | XAXA BCXC XXXB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 1110101 010101 01011111 010101 10100100 010111 010100 1101 1101011 010101 11100101 010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 326 |
Words | 56 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 85 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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