Analysis of Me, change! Me, alter!
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Me, change! Me, alter!
Then I will, when on the Everlasting Hill
A Smaller Purple grows—
At sunset, or a lesser glow
Flickers upon Cordillera—
At Day's superior close!
| Scheme | ABCDAE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11110 1111100101 010101 1110101 10011 1101001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 174 |
| Words | 31 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 129 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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