Analysis of To love thee Year by Year
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
To love thee Year by Year—
May less appear
Than sacrifice, and cease—
However, dear,
Forever might be short, I thought to show—
And so I pieced it, with a flower, now.
Scheme | AABACD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111 1101 11001 101 0101111111 0111110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 176 |
Words | 34 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 6 |
Lines Amount | 6 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 126 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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