Analysis of I sing to use the Waiting
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
I sing to use the Waiting
My Bonnet but to tie
And shut the Door unto my House
No more to do have I
Till His best step approaching
We journey to the Day
And tell each other how We sung
To Keep the Dark away.
| Scheme | ABXB ACXC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1111010 110111 01011011 111111 1111010 110101 01110111 110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 208 |
| Words | 48 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 81 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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