Analysis of Rehearsal to Ourselves
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Rehearsal to Ourselves
Of a Withdrawn Delight—
Affords a Bliss like Murder—
Omnipotent—Acute—
We will not drop the Dirk—
Because We love the Wound
The Dirk Commemorate—Itself
Remind Us that we died.
| Scheme | ABCCDEFG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0101001 100101 0101110 0100011 111101 011101 0101001 011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 217 |
| Words | 35 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 162 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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