Analysis of We like march, his shoes are purple,
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
We like March, his shoes are purple,
He is new and high;
Makes he mud for dog and peddler,
Makes he forest dry;
Knows the adder's tongue his coming,
And begets her spot.
Stands the sun so close and mighty
That our minds are hot.
News is he of all the others;
Bold it were to die
With the blue-birds buccaneering
On his British sky.
| Scheme | ABCBDEFEGBDB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111110 11101 11111010 11101 1011110 00101 10111010 110111 11111010 11011 10111 11101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 346 |
| Words | 67 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 255 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 65 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 21, 2023
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