Analysis of Impossibility, like Wine
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Impossibility, like Wine
Exhilarates the Man
Who tastes it; Possibility
Is flavorless—Combine
A Chance's faintest Tincture
And in the former Dram
Enchantment makes ingredient
As certainly as Doom—
| Scheme | AXXA XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0010011 101 1110100 11010 011010 000101 01010100 110011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 201 |
| Words | 30 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 82 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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