Analysis of Perhaps I Asked Too Large
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Perhaps I asked too large --
I take -- no less than skies --
For Earths, grow thick as
Berries, in my native town --
My Basked holds -- just -- Firmaments --
Those -- dangle easy -- on my arm,
But smaller bundles -- Cram.
| Scheme | XAXX AXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 011111 111111 11111 1001101 11111 11010111 110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 223 |
| Words | 48 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 76 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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