Analysis of 'They Have Not Chosen Me,' He Said
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
'They have not chosen me,' he said,
'But I have chosen them!'
Brave—Broken hearted statement—
Uttered in Bethlehem!
I could not have told it,
But since Jesus dared—
Sovereign! Know a Daisy
They dishonor shared!
| Scheme | XAXA XBXB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11110111 111101 1101010 10010 111111 11101 101010 10101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 217 |
| Words | 39 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 81 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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