Analysis of Not all die early, dying young
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Not all die early, dying young—
Maturity of Fate
Is consummated equally
In Ages, or a Night—
A Hoary Boy, I've known to drop
Whole statured—by the side
Of Junior of Fourscore—'twas Act
Not Period—that died.
Scheme | XXXX XAXA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
Metre | 11110101 010011 1100100 010101 01011111 11101 1101111 110011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 217 |
Words | 38 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 80 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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