Analysis of Safe in their alabaster chambers,
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Safe in their alabaster chambers,
Untouched by morning and untouched by noon,
Sleep the meek members of the resurrection,
Rafter of satin, and roof of stone.
Light laughs the breeze in her castle of sunshine;
Babbles the bee in a stolid ear;
Pipe the sweet birds in ignorant cadences, --
Ah, what sagacity perished here!
Grand go the years in the crescent above them;
Worlds scoop their arcs, and firmaments row,
Diadems drop and Doges surrender,
Soundless as dots on a disk of snow.
| Scheme | XXXX XAXA XBXB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
| Metre | 10110010 0111000111 1011010010 101100111 1101001011 10100101 10110100100 111101 11010010011 1111011 1101010 11110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 480 |
| Words | 86 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 128 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 18, 2023
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