Analysis of I've seen a Dying Eye
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
I've seen a Dying Eye
Run round and round a Room—
In search of Something—as it seemed—
Then Cloudier become—
And then—obscure with Fog—
And then—be soldered down
Without disclosing what it be
'Twere blessed to have seen—
| Scheme | ABCDEFGH |
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110101 110101 01110111 1101 010111 01111 01010111 11111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 237 |
| Words | 40 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 173 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 23, 2023
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