Analysis of You're right—
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
You're right—"the way is narrow"—
And "difficult the Gate"—
And "few there be"—Correct again—
That "enter in—thereat"—
'Tis Costly—So are purples!
'Tis just the price of Breath—
With but the "Discount" of the Grave—
Termed by the Brokers—"Death"!
And after that—there's Heaven—
The Good Man's—"Dividend"—
And Bad Men—"go to Jail"—
I guess—
Scheme | XAXA XBXB XXXX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 1101110 010001 01110101 11001 1101110 110111 11001101 110101 0101110 01110 011111 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 372 |
Words | 54 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 82 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 21, 2023
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