Analysis of It is a lonesome Glee
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
It is a lonesome Glee—
Yet sanctifies the Mind—
With fair association—
Afar upon the Wind
A Bird to overhear
Delight without a Cause—
Arrestless as invisible—
A matter of the Skies.
Scheme | XAXA XXXX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
Metre | 110101 1101 110010 010101 011101 010101 110100 010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 192 |
Words | 34 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 72 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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