Analysis of We met as Sparks—Diverging Flints
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
We met as Sparks—Diverging Flints
Sent various—scattered ways—
We parted as the Central Flint
Were cloven with an Adze—
Subsisting on the Light We bore
Before We felt the Dark—
A Flint unto this Day—perhaps—
But for that single Spark.
| Scheme | ABCADEFE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11110101 1100101 11010101 01111 110111 011101 01101101 111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 249 |
| Words | 42 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 187 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 21, 2023
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