Analysis of Like her the Saints retire
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Like her the Saints retire,
In their Chapeaux of fire,
Martial as she!
Like her the Evenings steal
Purple and Cochineal
After the Day!
"Departed"—both- ;they say!
i.e. gathered away,
Not found,
Argues the Aster still—
Reasons the Daffodil
Profound!
| Scheme | XXX AAB BBC DDC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 100101 011110 1011 100101 1001 1001 010111 11001 11 100101 10010 01 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 250 |
| Words | 43 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 48 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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