Analysis of I live with Him—I see His face

Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)



I live with Him—I see His face—
I go no more away
For Visitor—or Sundown—
Death's single privacy

The Only One—forestalling Mine—
And that—by Right that He
Presents a Claim invisible—
No wedlock—granted Me—

I live with Him—I hear His Voice—
I stand alive—Today—
To witness to the Certainty
Of Immortality—

Taught Me—by Time—the lower Way—
Conviction—Every day—
That Life like This—is stopless—
Be Judgment—what it may—


Scheme ABXC XCXC XBCC BBAB
Poetic Form Quatrain  (25%)
Metre 11111111 111101 110011 110100 0101101 011111 10010100 11101 11111111 110101 11010100 10100 11110101 0101001 111111 110111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 458
Words 69
Sentences 1
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 82
Words per stanza (avg) 17
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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