Analysis of To learn the Transport by the Pain
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
To learn the Transport by the Pain
As Blind Men learn the sun!
To die of thirst—suspecting
That Brooks in Meadows run!
To stay the homesick—homesick feet
Upon a foreign shore—
Haunted by native lands, the while—
And blue—beloved air!
This is the Sovereign Anguish!
This—the signal woe!
These are the patient "Laureates"
Whose voices—trained—below—
As cend in ceaseless Carol—
Inaudible, indeed,
To us—the duller scholars
Of the Mysterious Bard!
| Scheme | XAXA XXXX XBXB XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 11001101 111101 1111010 11011 110111 010101 10110101 01011 1101010 10101 11010100 110101 1101010 010001 1101010 1001001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 460 |
| Words | 72 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 88 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 02, 2023
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