Analysis of The Day Came Slow
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
The day came slow, till five o'clock,
Then sprang before the hills,
Like hindered rubies, or the light,
A sudden musket spills.
The purple could not keep the east.
The sunrise shook from fold.
Like breadths of topaz, packed a night,
The lady just unrolled.
The happy winds their timbrels took;
The birds in docile rows,
Arranged themselves around their prince.
(The wind is prince of those.)
The orchard sparkled like a Jew,---
How mighty 'twas to stay,
A guest in this stupendous place,
The parlor of the day.
Scheme | XABA XXBB XCXC XDXD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 01111101 110101 11010101 010101 01011101 01111 1111101 01011 0101111 010101 01010111 011111 01010101 110111 01010101 010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 504 |
Words | 93 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 99 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 06, 2023
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