Analysis of No Prisoner be

Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)



No Prisoner be—
Where Liberty—
Himself—abide with Thee—


Scheme AAA
Poetic Form Tercet 
Triplet
Metre 11001 1100 010111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 69
Words 10
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 44
Words per stanza (avg) 8
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 03, 2023

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