Analysis of Tie the strings to my life, my Lord,
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Tie the strings to my life, my Lord,
Then I am ready to go!
Just a look at the horses --
Rapid! That will do!
Put me in on the firmest side,
So I shall never fall;
For we must ride to the Judgment,
And it's partly down hill.
But never I mind the bridges,
And never I mind the sea;
Held fast in everlasting race
By my own choice and thee.
Good-by to the life I used to lives,
And the world I used to know;
And kiss the hills for me, just once;
Now I am ready to go!
| Scheme | XABX XXXX BCXC XAXA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 10111111 1111011 1011010 10111 11010101 111101 11111010 011011 11011010 0101101 1100101 111101 111011111 0011111 01011111 1111011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 481 |
| Words | 103 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 86 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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