Analysis of I send Two Sunsets
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
I send Two Sunsets—
Day and I—in competition ran—
I finished Two—and several Stars—
While He—was making One—
His own was ampler—but as I
Was saying to a friend—
Mine—is the more convenient
To Carry in the Hand—
| Scheme | XXXX XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111 10100101 11010101 111101 1111111 110101 1101010 110001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 233 |
| Words | 40 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 81 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 20, 2023
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