Analysis of A darting fear—a pomp—a tear
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
A darting fear—a pomp—a tear—
A waking on a morn
To find that what one waked for,
Inhales the different dawn.
| Scheme | ABCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01010101 010101 1111111 101001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 120 |
| Words | 23 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 84 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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