Analysis of You constituted Time
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
You constituted Time—
I deemed Eternity
A Revelation of Yourself—
'Twas therefore Deity
The Absolute—removed
The Relative away—
That I unto Himself adjust
My slow idolatry—
Scheme | XAXA XXXA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
Metre | 11001 110100 0010101 11100 01001 010001 11100101 110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 183 |
Words | 28 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 71 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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