Analysis of Where Ships of Purple—gently toss
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Where Ships of Purple—gently toss—
On Seas of Daffodil—
Fantastic Sailors—mingle—
And then—the Wharf is still!
Scheme | ABCB |
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Poetic Form | Ballad stanza Quatrain Simple 4-line |
Metre | 11110101 11110 0101010 010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 127 |
Words | 18 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 88 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 04, 2023
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