Analysis of My friend attacks my friend!
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
My friend attacks my friend!
Oh Battle picturesque!
Then I turn Soldier too,
And he turns Satirist!
How martial is this place!
Had I a mighty gun
I think I'd shoot the human race
And then to glory run!
Scheme | ABCDEFEF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110111 110100 111101 011100 110111 110101 11110101 011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 202 |
Words | 41 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 156 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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