Analysis of Each Scar I'll keep for Him
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Each Scar I'll keep for Him
Instead I'll say of Gem
In His long Absence worn
A Costlier one
But every Tear I bore
Were He to count them o'er
His own would fall so more
I'll mis sum them.
| Scheme | XAXX BXBA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111111 011111 011101 01001 1100111 0111110 111111 1111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 187 |
| Words | 42 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 71 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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