Analysis of Kill your Balm—and its Odors bless you
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Kill your Balm—and its Odors bless you—
Bare your Jessamine—to the storm—
And she will fling her maddest perfume—
Haply—your Summer night to Charm—
Stab the Bird—that built in your bosom—
Oh, could you catch her last Refrain—
Bubble! "forgive"—"Some better"—Bubble!
"Carol for Him—when I am gone"!
| Scheme | XXXX XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111011011 11100101 01110101 1110111 101110110 11110101 100111010 10111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 324 |
| Words | 49 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 114 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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