Analysis of Of Bronze—and Blaze

Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)



Of Bronze—and Blaze—
The North—Tonight—
So adequate—it forms—
So preconcerted with itself—
So distant—to alarms—
And Unconcern so sovereign
To Universe, or me—
Infects my simple spirit
With Taints of Majesty—
Till I take vaster attitudes—
And strut upon my stem—
Disdaining Men, and Oxygen,
For Arrogance of them—

My Splendors, are Menagerie—
But their Completeless Show
Will entertain the Centuries
When I, am long ago,
An Island in dishonored Grass—
Whom none but Beetles—know.


Scheme XXXXXABXBXCAC BDXDXD
Poetic Form
Metre 1101 0101 110011 11101 110101 001110 11011 0111010 111100 111110 010111 01010100 110011 1110100 1111 1010100 111101 11000101 111101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 503
Words 77
Sentences 2
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 13, 6
Lines Amount 19
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 191
Words per stanza (avg) 38
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 20, 2023

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