Analysis of The dying need but little, dear,--
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
The dying need but little, dear,--
A glass of water's all,
A flower's unobtrusive face
To punctuate the wall,
A fan, perhaps, a friend's regret,
And certainly that one
No color in the rainbow
Perceives when you are gone.
| Scheme | XAXA XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 01011101 011101 010101 11001 01010101 010011 110001 011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 233 |
| Words | 42 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 85 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 22, 2023
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