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 |
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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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