Analysis of Perhaps you'd like to buy a flower
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Perhaps you'd like to buy a flower,
But I could never sell—
If you would like to borrow,
Until the Daffodil
Unties her yellow Bonnet
Beneath the village door,
Until the Bees, from Clover rows
Their Hock, and Sherry, draw,
Why, I will lend until just then,
But not an hour more!
| Scheme | XXXX XAXX XA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Etheree (40%) Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 011111010 111101 111111 01010 101010 010101 01011101 110101 11110111 111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 278 |
| Words | 54 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 71 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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