Analysis of Whose cheek is this?
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Whose cheek is this?
What rosy face
Has lost a blush today?
I found her—"pleiad"—in the woods
And bore her safe away.
Robins, in the tradition
Did cover such with leaves,
But which the cheek—
And which the pall
My scrutiny deceives.
| Scheme | AXBXB XXXXA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) Etheree (30%) |
| Metre | 1111 1101 110101 11010001 010101 1000010 110111 1101 0101 11001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 237 |
| Words | 44 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 90 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 21, 2023
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