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?
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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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