Analysis of How the old Mountains drip with Sunset
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
How the old Mountains drip with Sunset
How the Hemlocks burn—
How the Dun Brake is draped in Cinder
By the Wizard Sun—
How the old Steeples hand the Scarlet
Till the Ball is full—
Have I the lip of the Flamingo
That I dare to tell?
Then, how the Fire ebbs like Billows—
Touching all the Grass
With a departing—Sapphire—feature—
As a Duchess passed—
How a small Dusk crawls on the Village
Till the Houses blot
And the odd Flambeau, no men carry
Glimmer on the Street—
How it is Night—in Nest and Kennel—
And where was the Wood—
Just a Dome of Abyss is Bowing
Into Solitude—
These are the Visions flitted Guido—
Titian—never told—
Domenichino dropped his pencil—
Paralyzed, with Gold—
Scheme | XXAX XXBX XXAX XXXX CXXX BDCD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10110111 1011 101111010 10101 101101010 10111 110110010 11111 110101110 10101 1001010010 10101 101111010 10101 00111110 10101 111101010 01101 101101110 0110 11010110 10101 11110 1011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 705 |
Words | 126 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 90 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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