Analysis of It is easy to work when the soul is at play
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
It is easy to work when the soul is at play—
But when the soul is in pain—
The hearing him put his playthings up
Makes work difficult—then—
It is simple, to ache in the Bone, or the Rind—
But Gimlets—among the nerve—
Mangle daintier—terribler—
Like a Panter in the Glove—
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111011101111 1101101 01011111 111001 111011001101 110101 1011 1010001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 292 |
| Words | 53 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 105 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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