Analysis of I bring an unaccustomed wine
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
I bring an unaccustomed wine
To lips long parching
Next to mine,
And summon them to drink;
Crackling with fever, they Essay,
I turn my brimming eyes away,
And come next hour to look.
The hands still hug the tardy glass—
The lips I would have cooled, alas—
Are so superfluous Cold—
I would as soon attempt to warm
The bosoms where the frost has lain
Ages beneath the mould—
Some other thirsty there may be
To whom this would have pointed me
Had it remained to speak—
And so I always bear the cup
If, haply, mine may be the drop
Some pilgrim thirst to slake—
If, haply, any say to me
"Unto the little, unto me,"
When I at last awake.
Scheme | ABAB CCB DDE XXE FFB XXB FFB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110101 1111 111 010111 10110101 11110101 0111011 01110101 01111101 11101 11110111 0110111 100101 11010111 11111101 110111 0111101 1111101 110111 1110111 10010101 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 630 |
Words | 126 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 70 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 22, 2023
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