Analysis of Pain—has an Element of Blank
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Pain—has an Element of Blank—
It cannot recollect
When it begun—or if there were
A time when it was not—
It has no Future—but itself—
Its Infinite contain
Its Past—enlightened to perceive
New Periods—of Pain.
| Scheme | XXXX XAXA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 11110011 11001 11011110 011111 11110101 110001 11010101 110011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 225 |
| Words | 37 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 83 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 22, 2023
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