Analysis of A House upon the Height
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
A House upon the Height—
That Wagon never reached—
No Dead, were ever carried down—
No Peddler's Cart—approached—
Whose Chimney never smoked—
Whose Windows—Night and Morn—
Caught Sunrise first—and Sunset—last—
Then—held an Empty Pane—
Whose fate—Conjecture knew—
No other neighbor—did—
And what it was—we never lisped—
Because He—never told—
| Scheme | AXXX XXXX XXAX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010101 110101 11010101 11101 110101 110101 111011 111101 110101 110101 01111101 011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 380 |
| Words | 51 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 90 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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