Analysis of I never felt at Home—Below

Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)



I never felt at Home—Below—-
And in the Handsome Skies
I shall not feel at Home—I know—
I don't like Paradise—

Because it's Sunday—all the time—
And Recess—never comes—
And Eden'll be so lonesome
Bright Wednesday Afternoons—

If God could make a visit—
Or ever took a Nap—
So not to see us—but they say
Himself—a Telescope

Perennial beholds us—
Myself would run away
From Him—and Holy Ghost—and All—
But there's the "Judgement Day"!


Scheme AXAX XXXX XXBX XBXB
Poetic Form Quatrain  (25%)
Metre 11011101 000101 11111111 11110 0111101 001101 011110 11001 1111010 110101 11111111 01010 010011 11101 11010101 110101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 460
Words 76
Sentences 2
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 83
Words per stanza (avg) 19
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 03, 2023

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