Analysis of If What we could—were what we would
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
If What we could—were what we would—
Criterion—be small—
It is the Ultimate of Talk—
The Impotence to Tell—
Scheme | ABCD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110111 010011 11010011 010011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 124 |
Words | 21 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 83 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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