Analysis of Of Tolling Bell I ask the cause?
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Of Tolling Bell I ask the cause?
"A Soul has gone to Heaven"
I'm answered in a lonesome tone—
Is Heaven then a Prison?
That Bells should ring till all should know
A Soul had gone to Heaven
Would seem to me the more the way
A Good News should be given.
| Scheme | XAXA XAXA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11011101 0111110 11000101 1101010 11111111 0111110 11110101 0111110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 254 |
| Words | 54 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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