Analysis of No Man can compass a Despair
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
No Man can compass a Despair—
As round a Goalless Road
No faster than a Mile at once
The Traveller proceed—
Unconscious of the Width—
Unconscious that the Sun
Be setting on His progress—
So accurate the One
At estimating Pain—
Whose own—has just begun—
His ignorance—the Angel
That pilot Him along—
| Scheme | XXXX XAXA XAXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (33%) |
| Metre | 11110001 11011 11010111 010001 10101 10101 110111 110001 11001 111101 1100010 110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 313 |
| Words | 54 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 79 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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