Analysis of To Emily Dickinson
Harold Hart Crane 1899 (Garrettsville, Ohio) – 1932 (Gulf of Mexico)
You who desired so much--in vain to ask--
Yet fed you hunger like an endless task,
Dared dignify the labor, bless the quest--
Achieved that stillness ultimately best,
Being, of all, least sought for: Emily, hear!
O sweet, dead Silencer, most suddenly clear
When singing that Eternity possessed
And plundered momently in every breast;
--Truly no flower yet withers in your hand.
The harvest you descried and understand
Needs more than wit to gather, love to bind.
Some reconcilement of remotest mind--
Leaves Ormus rubyless, and Ophir chill.
Else tears heap all within one clay-cold hill.
Scheme | AABB XXBB CCDD EE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010110111 1111011101 110010101 0111010001 10111111001 111111001 1101010001 010101001 10110110011 01011001 1111110111 1110101 111011 1111011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 584 |
Words | 98 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 116 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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