Analysis of Of Silken Speech and Specious Shoe
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Of Silken Speech and Specious Shoe
A Traitor is the Bee
His service to the newest Grace
Present continually
His Suit a chance
His Troth a Term
Protracted as the Breeze
Continual Ban propoundeth He
Continual Divorce.
| Scheme | XAXA XXXAX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11010101 010101 11010101 1001000 1101 1101 010101 0100111 010001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 215 |
| Words | 39 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 89 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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