Analysis of To die
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
To die--takes just a little while--
They say it doesn't hurt--
It's only fainter--by degrees--
And then--it's out of sight--
A darker Ribbon--for a Day--
A Crape upon the Hat--
And then the pretty sunshine comes--
And helps us to forget--
The absent--mystic--creature--
That but for love of us--
Had gone to sleep--that soundest time--
Without the weariness--
| Scheme | XXXX XXXX XAXA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (33%) |
| Metre | 11110101 111101 11010101 011111 01010101 010101 0101011 011101 0101010 111111 11111101 010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 356 |
| Words | 60 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 87 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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