Analysis of A door just opened on a street
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
A door just opened on a street--
I, lost, was passing by--
An instant's width of warmth disclosed
And wealth, and company.
The door as sudden shut, and I,
I, lost, was passing by,--
Lost doubly, but by contrast most,
Enlightening misery.
| Scheme | xAxb aAxb |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01110101 111101 1111101 010100 01110101 111101 11011101 0100100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 250 |
| Words | 45 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 89 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 01, 2023
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