Analysis of Joy to have merited the Pain
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Joy to have merited the Pain—
To merit the Release—
Joy to have perished every step—
To Compass Paradise—
Pardon—to look upon thy face—
With these old fashioned Eyes—
Better than new—could be—for that—
Though bought in Paradise—
Because they looked on thee before—
And thou hast looked on them—
Prove Me—My Hazel Witnesses
The features are the same—
So fleet thou wert, when present—
So infinite—when gone—
An Orient's Apparition—
Remanded of the Morn—
The Height I recollect—
'Twas even with the Hills—
The Depth upon my Soul was notched—
As Floods—on Whites of Wheels—
To Haunt—till Time have dropped
His last Decade away,
And Haunting actualize—to last
At least—Eternity—
Scheme | XXXA XXXA XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110001 110001 111101001 11010 10110111 111101 10111111 11010 01111101 011111 11110100 010101 1111110 110011 11010 010101 01101 110101 01011111 111111 111111 110101 0101011 110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 717 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 89 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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