Analysis of Read—Sweet—how others—strove
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Read—Sweet—how others—strove—
Till we—are stouter—
What they—renounced—
Till we—are less afraid—
How many times they—bore the faithful witness—
Till we—are helped—
As if a Kingdom—cared!
Read then—of faith—
That shone above the fagot—
Clear strains of Hymn
The River could not drown—
Brave names of Men—
And Celestial Women—
Passed out—of Record
Into—Renown!
| Scheme | XXAXXXX XAXBXXXB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (47%) |
| Metre | 111101 1111 1101 111101 11011101010 1111 110101 1111 110101 1111 010111 1111 001010 11101 0101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 398 |
| Words | 55 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7, 8 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 141 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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