Analysis of South Winds jostle them
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
South Winds jostle them—
Bumblebees come—
Hover—hesitate—
Dri nk, and are gone—
Butterflies pause
On their passage Cashmere—
I—softly plucking,
Present them here!
| Scheme | XXXX XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11101 11 1010 11011 101 111010 11010 1011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 178 |
| Words | 25 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 65 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 12, 2023
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