Analysis of If pain for peace prepares
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
If pain for peace prepares
Lo, what "Augustan" years
Our feet await!
If springs from winter rise,
Can the Anemones
Be reckoned up?
If night stands fast—then noon
To gird us for the sun,
What gaze!
When from a thousand skies
On our developed eyes
Noons blaze!
| Scheme | AXX BAX XXC BBC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111101 1111 10101 111101 101 1101 111111 111101 11 110101 1100101 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 257 |
| Words | 49 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 51 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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