Analysis of Rest at Night
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Rest at Night
The Sun from shining,
Nature—and some Men—
Rest at Noon—some Men—
While Nature
And the Sun—go on—
Scheme | ABCCDE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111 01110 10011 11111 110 00111 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 126 |
Words | 22 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 6 |
Lines Amount | 6 |
Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 85 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 13, 2023
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