Analysis of The Morning after Woe
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
The Morning after Woe—
'Tis frequently the Way—
Surpasses all that rose before—
For utter Jubilee—
As Nature did not care—
And piled her Blossoms on—
And further to parade a Joy
Her Victim stared upon—
The Birds declaim their Tunes—
Pronouncing every word
Like Hammers—Did they know they fell
Like Litanies of Lead—
On here and there—a creature—
They'd modify the Glee
To fit some Crucifixal Clef—
Some Key of Calvary—
| Scheme | XXXA XBXB XXXX XAXA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 010101 110001 01011101 11010 110111 010101 01010101 010101 010111 0101001 11011111 110011 1101010 11001 11111 111100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 439 |
| Words | 74 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 83 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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