Analysis of The Leaves like Women interchange

Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)



The Leaves like Women interchange
Exclusive Confidence—
Somewhat of nods and somewhat
Portentous inference.

The Parties in both cases
Enjoining secrecy—
Inviolable compact
To notoriety.


Scheme XAXA XBXB
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 0111001 010100 1111011 010100 0100110 010100 0100010 10100
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 190
Words 27
Sentences 3
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 79
Words per stanza (avg) 13
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 16, 2023

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