Analysis of It struck me every day
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
It struck me every day
The lightning was as new
As if the cloud that instant slit
And let the fire through.
It burned me in the night,
It blistered in my dream;
It sickened fresh upon my sight
With every morning's beam.
I thought that storm was brief,--
The maddest, quickest by;
But Nature lost the date of this,
And left it in the sky.
| Scheme | XAXA BCBC XDXD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1111001 010111 11011101 010101 111001 110011 11010111 1100101 111111 01101 11010111 011001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 352 |
| Words | 69 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 87 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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