Analysis of I'm nobody! Who are you?



I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us -- don't tell!
They'd banish -- you know!

How dreary to be somebody!
How public like a frog
To tell one's name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!


Scheme AAXX XBXB
Poetic Form ~Rispetto 
Metre 11111 1111 11011111 11011 1101110 110101 1111011 110101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 220
Words 46
Sentences 8
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 80
Words per stanza (avg) 22
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 03, 2023

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Emily Dickinson

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