Analysis of She sweeps with many-colored brooms,
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
She sweeps with many-colored brooms,
And leaves the shreds behind;
Oh, housewife in the evening west,
Come back, and dust the pond!
You dropped a purple ravelling in,
You dropped an amber thread;
And now you've littered all the East
With duds of emerald!
And still she plies her spotted brooms,
And still the aprons fly,
Till brooms fade softly into stars --
And then I come away.
| Scheme | AXXX XXXX AXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11110101 010101 1100101 110101 1101010 111101 01110101 11110 01110101 010101 11110011 011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 377 |
| Words | 70 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 99 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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