Analysis of I would not paint—a picture
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
I would not paint—a picture—
I'd rather be the One
Its bright impossibility
To dwell—delicious—on—
And wonder how the fingers feel
Whose rare—celestial—stir—
Evokes so sweet a Torment—
Such sumptuous—Despair—
I would not talk, like Cornets—
I'd rather be the One
Raised softly to the Ceilings—
And out, and easy on—
Through Villages of Ether—
Myself endued Balloon
By but a lip of Metal—
The pier to my Pontoon—
Nor would I be a Poet—
It's finer—own the Ear—
Enamored—impotent—content—
The License to revere,
A privilege so awful
What would the Dower be,
Had I the Art to stun myself
With Bolts of Melody!
Scheme | aBcdxaex fBfdaghg xxexhcxc |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111010 110101 1100100 110101 01010101 110101 011101 11001 111111 110101 1101010 010101 1100110 10101 1101110 011101 1111010 110101 01010010 010101 010110 11011 1101111 111100 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 636 |
Words | 106 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 157 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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