Analysis of These tested Our Horizon
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
These tested Our Horizon—
Then disappeared
As Birds before achieving
A Latitude.
Our Retrospection of Them
A fixed Delight,
But our Anticipation
A Dice—a Doubt—
| Scheme | AXXX XXAX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11010010 101 1101010 010 10111 0101 1100010 0101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 167 |
| Words | 27 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 66 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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