Analysis of I've none to tell me to but Thee

Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)



I've none to tell me to but Thee
So when Thou failest, nobody.
It was a little tie—
It just held Two, nor those it held
Since Somewhere thy sweet Face has spilled
Beyond my Boundary—

If things were opposite—and Me
And Me it were—that ebbed from Thee
On some unanswering Shore—
Would'st Thou seek so—just say
That I the Answer may pursue
Unto the lips it eddied through—
So—overtaking Thee—


Scheme AAXXXA AAXXBBA
Poetic Form
Metre 11111111 11111 110101 11111111 1111111 011100 11010001 011011011 1111 1111111 11010101 1001111 11001
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 403
Words 73
Sentences 2
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 6, 7
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 153
Words per stanza (avg) 36
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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