Analysis of God made a little Gentian
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
God made a little Gentian—
It tried—to be a Rose—
And failed—and all the Summer laughed—
But just before the Snows
There rose a Purple Creature—
That ravished all the Hill—
And Summer hid her Forehead—
And Mockery—was still—
The Frosts were her condition—
The Tyrian would not come
Until the North—invoke it—
Creator—Shall I—bloom?
| Scheme | ABXB XCXC AXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
| Metre | 1101010 111101 01010101 110101 1101010 11101 0101010 010011 0100010 01111 0101011 010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 358 |
| Words | 57 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 87 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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