Analysis of So bashful when I spied her!
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
So bashful when I spied her!
So pretty—so ashamed!
So hidden in her leaflets
Lest anybody find—
So breathless till I passed here—
So helpless when I turned
And bore her struggling, blushing,
Her simple haunts beyond!
For whom I robbed the Dingle—
For whom I betrayed the Dell—
Many, will doubtless ask me,
But I shall never tell!
| Scheme | XXXX XXXX XAXA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (33%) |
| Metre | 1101110 110101 1100010 110001 1101111 110111 01010010 010101 1111010 1110101 1011011 111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 336 |
| Words | 61 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 86 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 07, 2023
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