Analysis of Absent Place—an April Day
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Absent Place—an April Day—
Daffodils a-blow
Homesick curiosity
To the Souls that snow—
Drift may block within it
Deeper than without—
Daffodil delight but
Him it duplicate—
| Scheme | XAXA XXBB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 1011101 1001 10100 10111 111011 10101 10011 11100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 183 |
| Words | 29 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 70 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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