Analysis of The heart asks pleasure first
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
The heart asks pleasure first
And then, excuse from pain-
And then, those little anodynes
That deaden suffering;
And then, to go to sleep;
And then, if it should be
The will of its Inquisitor,
The liberty to die.
| Scheme | XXXX XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 011101 010111 011101 110100 011111 011111 01110100 010011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 213 |
| Words | 41 |
| 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) | 83 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 30, 2023
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