Analysis of Love reckons by itself—alone
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Love reckons by itself—alone—
"As large as I"—relate the Sun
To One who never felt it blaze—
Itself is all the like it has—
| Scheme | ABCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11010101 11110101 11110111 01110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 138 |
| Words | 26 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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