Analysis of This Quiet Dust was Gentlemen and Ladies
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
This quiet dust was gentlemen and ladies
And lads and girls;
Was laughter and ability and sighing,
And frocks and curls;
This passive place a summer's nimble mansion,
Where bloom and bees
Fulfilled their oriental circuit,
Then ceased like these.
| Scheme | ABXB XAXA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11011100010 0101 11000100010 0101 11010101010 1101 01101010 1111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 246 |
| Words | 42 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 13, 2023
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