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 |
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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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