Analysis of Pain has an element of blank;
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Pain has an element of blank;
It cannot recollect
When it began, or if there were
A day when it was not.
It has no future but itself,
Its infinite realms contain
Its past, enlightened to perceive
New periods of pain.
| Scheme | XXXX XAXA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 11110011 11001 11011110 011111 11110101 1100101 11010101 110011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 217 |
| Words | 43 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 85 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 28, 2023
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