Analysis of God permit industrious angels
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
God permit industrious angels
Afternoons to play.
I met one, -- forgot my school-mates,
All, for him, straightaway.
God calls home the angels promptly
At the setting sun;
I missed mine. How dreary marbles,
After playing the Crown!
| Scheme | ABXB XXAX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 101010010 0111 11101111 11110 11101010 10101 11111010 101001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 231 |
| Words | 40 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 90 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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