Analysis of I never hear the word 'escape'
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
I never hear the word 'escape'
Without a quicker blood,
A sudden expectation,
A flying attitude.
I never hear of prisons broad
By soldiers battered down,
But I tug childish at my bars, --
Only to fail again!
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11010101 010101 010010 01010 11011101 110101 11110111 101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 208 |
| Words | 40 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 80 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 23, 2023
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