Analysis of The Sunset stopped on Cottages
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
The Sunset stopped on Cottages
Where Sunset hence must be
For treason not of His, but Life's,
Gone Westerly, Today—
The Sunset stopped on Cottages
Where Morning just begun—
What difference, after all, Thou mak'st
Thou supercilious Sun?
| Scheme | Axxx Abxb |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 0111100 11111 11011111 110001 0111100 110101 1100101111 101001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 240 |
| Words | 40 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 94 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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