Analysis of The power to be true to You
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
The power to be true to You,
Until upon my face
The Judgment push his Picture—
Presumptuous of Your Place—
Of This—Could Man deprive Me—
Himself—the Heaven excel—
Whose invitation—Yours reduced
Until it showed too small—
| Scheme | XAXA XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 01011111 010111 0101110 0100111 1111011 0101001 1010101 011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 237 |
| Words | 38 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 88 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 09, 2023
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