Analysis of The Sun is gay or stark
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
The Sun is gay or stark
According to our Deed.
If Merry, He is merrier—
If eager for the Dead
Or an expended Day
He helped to make too bright
His mighty pleasure suits Us not
It magnifies our Freight
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 011111 0101101 11011100 110101 110101 111111 11010111 110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 202 |
| Words | 42 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 79 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 08, 2023
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