Analysis of A Night—there lay the Days between
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
A Night—there lay the Days between—
The Day that was Before—
And Day that was Behind—were one—
And now—'twas Night—was here—
Slow—Night—that must be watched away—
As Grains upon a shore—
Too imperceptible to note—
Till it be night—no more—
| Scheme | XAXX XAXA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 01110101 011101 01110101 011111 11111101 110101 1010011 111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 270 |
| Words | 42 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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