Analysis of My Faith is larger than the Hills
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
My Faith is larger than the Hills—
So when the Hills decay—
My Faith must take the Purple Wheel
To show the Sun the way—
'Tis first He steps upon the Vane—
And then—upon the Hill—
And then abroad the World He go
To do His Golden Will—
And if His Yellow feet should miss—
The Bird would not arise—
The Flowers would slumber on their Stems—
No Bells have Paradise—
How dare I, therefore, stint a faith
On which so vast depends—
Lest Firmament should fail for me—
The Rivet in the Bands
Scheme | XAXA XBXB XXXX XXXX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
Metre | 11110101 110101 11110101 110101 11110101 010101 01010111 111101 01110111 011101 010110111 11110 1111101 111101 111111 010001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 502 |
Words | 96 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 94 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 06, 2023
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