Analysis of I'm nobody! Who are you?
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us -- don't tell!
They'd banish -- you know!
How dreary to be somebody!
How public like a frog
To tell one's name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!
| Scheme | AAXX XBXB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 11111 1111 11011111 11011 1101110 110101 1111011 110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 220 |
| Words | 46 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 80 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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