Analysis of Not in this world to see his face
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Not in this world to see his face
Sounds long, until I read the place
Where this is said to be
But just the primer to a life
Unopened, rare, upon the shelf,
Clasped yet to him and me.
And yet, my primer suits me so
I would not choose a book to know
Than that, be sweeter wise;
Might some one else so learned be.
And leave me just my A B C,
Himself could have the skies.
Scheme | AABXXB CCDBBD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10111111 11011101 111111 11010101 01010101 111101 01110111 11110111 111101 1111111 01111011 011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 366 |
Words | 81 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 140 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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