Analysis of Prayer is the little implement
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Prayer is the little implement
Through which Men reach
Where Presence—is denied them.
They fling their Speech
By means of it—in God's Ear—
If then He hear—
This sums the Apparatus
Comprised in Prayer—
Scheme | XAXA BBXX |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
Metre | 11010100 1111 1101011 1111 1111011 1111 110010 0101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 211 |
Words | 36 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 80 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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