Analysis of I had been hungry all the years-
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
I had been hungry all the years-
My noon had come, to dine-
I, trembling, drew the table near
And touched the curious wine.
'T was this on tables I had seen
When turning, hungry, lone,
I looked in windows, for the wealth
I could not hope to own.
I did not know the ample bread,
'T was so unlike the crumb
The birds and I had often shared
In Nature's dining-room.
The plenty hurt me, 't was so new,--
Myself felt ill and odd,
As berry of a mountain bush
Transplanted to the road.
Nor was I hungry; so I found
That hunger was a way
Of persons outside windows,
The entering takes away.
| Scheme | XAXA XBXB XXXX XXXX XCXC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (60%) Etheree (25%) |
| Metre | 11110101 111111 110010101 0101001 111110111 110101 11010101 111111 11110101 1110101 01011101 010101 010111111 11101 11010101 010101 11110111 110101 1101110 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 571 |
| Words | 118 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 20 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 88 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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