Analysis of She bore it till the simple veins
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
She bore it till the simple veins
Traced azure on her hand—
Til pleading, round her quiet eyes
The purple Crayons stand.
Till Daffodils had come and gone
I cannot tell the sum,
And then she ceased to bear it—
And with the Saints sat down.
No more her patient figure
At twilight soft to meet—
No more her timid bonnet
Upon the village street—
But Crowns instead, and Courtiers—
And in the midst so fair,
Whose but her shy—immortal face
Of whom we're whispering here?
| Scheme | XAXA XXXX XBXB XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 11110101 110101 11010101 01011 1101101 110101 0111111 010111 1101010 11111 1101010 010101 11010100 000111 11010101 1111001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 470 |
| Words | 88 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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