Analysis of Of nearness to her sundered Things
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Of nearness to her sundered Things
The Soul has special times—
When Dimness—looks the Oddity—
Distinctness—easy—se ems—
The Shapes we buried, dwell about,
Familiar, in the Rooms—
Untarnished by the Sepulchre,
The Mouldering Playmate comes—
In just the Jacket that he wore—
Long buttoned in the Mold
Since we—old mornings, Children—played—
Divided—by a world—
The Grave yields back her Robberies—
The Years, our pilfered Things—
Bright Knots of Apparitions
Salute us, with their wings—
As we—it were—that perished—
Themself—had just remained till we rejoin them—
And 'twas they, and not ourself
That mourned.
Scheme | AXXA XXBX BXXX XAXA XXXX |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (35%) Quatrain (20%) |
Metre | 111011 011101 1110100 11011 01110101 010001 1101 0111 01010111 110001 11110101 010101 01110100 0110101 111010 011111 1110110 01110111011 01101001 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 641 |
Words | 95 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 02, 2023
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