Analysis of Unfulfilled to Observation

Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)



Unfulfilled to Observation—
Incomplete—to Eye—
But to Faith—a Revolution
In Locality—

Unto Us—the Suns extinguish—
To our Opposite—
New Horizons—they embellish—
Fronting Us—with Night.


Scheme AXAX BXBX
Poetic Form
Metre 011010 00111 1110010 00100 10101010 110100 10101010 10111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 207
Words 26
Sentences 2
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 75
Words per stanza (avg) 12
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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