Analysis of Ideals are the Fairly Oil
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Ideals are the Fairly Oil
With which we help the Wheel
But when the Vital Axle turns
The Eye rejects the Oil.
| Scheme | ABCA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0110101 111101 11010101 010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 114 |
| Words | 24 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 87 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 17, 2023
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