Analysis of The Color of the Grave is Green
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
The Color of the Grave is Green—
The Outer Grave—I mean—
You would not know it from the Field—
Except it own a Stone—
To help the fond—to find it—
Too infinite asleep
To stop and tell them where it is—
But just a Daisy—deep—
The Color of the Grave is white—
The outer Grave—I mean—
You would not know it from the Drifts—
In Winter—till the Sun—
Has furrowed out the Aisles—
Then—higher than the Land
The little Dwelling Houses rise
Where each—has left a friend—
The Color of the Grave within—
The Duplicate—I mean—
Not all the Snows could make it white—
Not all the Summers—Green—
You've seen the Color—maybe—
Upon a Bonnet bound—
When that you met it with before—
The Ferret—cannot find—
Scheme | aAxx xbxb cAxx xxxx xaca xxxx |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (33%) |
Metre | 01010111 010111 11111101 011101 1101111 110001 11011111 110101 01010111 010111 11111101 010101 110101 110101 01010101 111101 01010101 010011 11011111 110101 1101010 010101 11111101 010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 737 |
Words | 128 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 88 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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