Analysis of Forever at His side to walk
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Forever at His side to walk—
The smaller of the two!
Brain of His Brain—
Blood of His Blood—
Two lives—One Being—now—
Forever of His fate to taste—
If grief—the largest part—
If joy—to put my piece away
For that beloved Heart—
All life—to know each other—
Whom we can never learn—
And bye and bye—a Change—
Called Heaven—
Rapt Neighborhoods of Men—
Just finding out—what puzzled us—
Without the lexicon!
| Scheme | XXXXX XAXA XXXXXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01011111 010101 1111 1111 111101 01011111 110101 11111101 11011 1111110 111101 010101 110 11011 11011101 01010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 436 |
| Words | 73 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 4, 7 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 104 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 16, 2023
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