Analysis of Not that We did, shall be the test
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Not that We did, shall be the test
When Act and Will are done
But what Our Lord infers We would
Had We diviner been—
| Scheme | ABCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111101 110111 111010111 1111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 123 |
| Words | 27 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 90 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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