Analysis of You cannot put a Fire out
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
You cannot put a Fire out—
A Thing that can ignite
Can go, itself, without a Fan—
Upon the slowest Night—
You cannot fold a Flood—
And put it in a Drawer—
Because the Winds would find it out—
And tell your Cedar Floor—
| Scheme | ABXB XCAC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11010101 011101 11010101 010101 110101 011001 01011111 011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 233 |
| Words | 46 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 83 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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