Analysis of The Poets light but Lamps
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
The Poets light but Lamps—
Themselves—go out—
The Wicks they stimulate—
If vital Light
Inhere as do the Suns—
Each Age a Lens
Disseminating their
Circumference—
| Scheme | XXXX XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010111 0111 01110 1101 11101 1101 01001 010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 173 |
| Words | 28 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 65 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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