Analysis of If Blame be my side—forfeit Me
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
If Blame be my side—forfeit Me—
But doom me not to forfeit Thee—
To forfeit Thee? The very name
Is sentence from Belief—and House—
| Scheme | AABC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111101 11111101 11010101 11010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 145 |
| Words | 26 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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