Analysis of Too little way the House must lie
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Too little way the House must lie
From every Human Heart
That holds in undisputed Lease
A white inhabitant—
Too narrow is the Right between—
Too imminent the chance—
Each Consciousness must emigrate
And lose its neighbor once—
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| Metre | 11010111 1100101 1100101 010100 11010101 110001 1100110 011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 235 |
| Words | 40 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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