Analysis of Ribbons of the Year
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Ribbons of the Year—
Multitude Brocade—
Worn to Nature's Party once
Then, as flung aside
As a faded Bead
Or a Wrinkled Pearl
Who shall charge the Vanity
Of the Maker's Girl?
| Scheme | XXX XXAXA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10101 1001 1110101 11101 10101 10101 1110100 10101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 178 |
| Words | 34 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 68 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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