Analysis of Surgeons must be very careful
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Surgeons must be very careful
When they take the knife!
Underneath their fine incisions
Stirs the Culprit—Life!
Scheme | ABCB |
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Poetic Form | Ballad stanza Quatrain Simple 4-line |
Metre | 10111010 11101 0111010 10101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 118 |
Words | 19 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 24, 2023
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