Analysis of Abraham to Kill Him
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Abraham to kill him
Was distinctly told—
Isaac was an Urchin—
Abraham was old—
Not a hesitation—
Abraham complied—
Flattered by Obeisance
Tyranny demurred—
Isaac—to his children
Lived to tell the tale—
Moral—with a mastiff
Manners may prevail.
Scheme | XABA BXXX BCXC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 10111 10101 101110 1011 10010 1001 1011 10001 101110 11101 101010 10101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 258 |
Words | 40 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 65 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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