Analysis of Like Some Old fashioned Miracle
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Like Some Old fashioned Miracle
When Summertime is done—
Seems Summer's Recollection
And the Affairs of June
As infinite Tradition
As Cinderella's Bays—
Or Little John—of Lincoln Green—
Or Blue Beard's Galleries—
Her Bees have a fictitious Hum—
Her Blossoms, like a Dream—
Elate us—till we almost weep—
So plausible—they seem—
Her Memories like Strains—Review—
When Orchestra is dumb—
The Violin in Baize replaced—
And Ear—and Heaven—numb—
| Scheme | XAAX AXXX BCXC XBXB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 11110100 11011 110010 000111 1100010 111 11011101 111100 01100101 010101 0111111 110011 0100111 110011 0001011 010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 468 |
| Words | 69 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 88 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 02, 2023
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