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.
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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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