Analysis of If it had no pencil

Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)



If it had no pencil
Would it try mine—
Worn—now—and dull—sweet,
Writing much to thee.
If it had no word,
Would it make the Daisy,
Most as big as I was,
When it plucked me?


Scheme ABCDEDFD
Poetic Form
Metre 111110 1111 11011 10111 11111 111010 111111 1111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 180
Words 37
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 127
Words per stanza (avg) 35
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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