Analysis of I hide myself within my flower

Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)



I hide myself within my flower,
That fading from your Vase,
You, unsuspecting, feel for me—
Almost a loneliness.


Scheme ABCD
Poetic Form
Metre 11101110 110111 1010111 10100
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 119
Words 21
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 88
Words per stanza (avg) 19
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 04, 2023

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