Analysis of The bustle in a house
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
The bustle in a house
The morning after death
Is solemnest of industries
Enacted upon earth,-
The sweeping up the heart,
And putting love away
We shall not want to use again
Until eternity.
| Scheme | XXXX XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010001 010101 111100 010011 010101 010101 11111101 010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 190 |
| Words | 37 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 76 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 22, 2023
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