Analysis of Those fair—fictitious People
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Those fair—fictitious People—
The Women—plucked away
From our familiar Lifetime—
The Men of Ivory—
Those Boys and Girls, in Canvas—
Who stay upon the Wall
In Everlasting Keepsake—
Can Anybody tell?
We trust—in places perfecter—
Inheriting Delight
Beyond our faint Conjecture—
Our dizzy Estimate—
Remembering ourselves, we trust—
Yet Blesseder—than We—
Through Knowing—where We only hope—
Receiving—where we—pray—
Of Expectation—also—
Anticipating us
With transport, that would be a pain
Except for Holiness—
Esteeming us—as Exile—
Themself—admitted Home—
Through easy Miracle of Death—
The Way ourself, must come—
Scheme | XAXB CXXX BXXX XBXA XCXC XXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101010 010101 1100101 011100 1101010 110101 00101 110001 110101 010001 01101010 1010100 010000111 1111 11011101 010111 101010 01001 10111101 011100 1111 010101 11010011 0100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 654 |
Words | 89 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 82 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 28, 2023
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