Analysis of Banish Air from Air—
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Banish Air from Air—
Divide Light if you dare—
They'll meet
While Cubes in a Drop
Or Pellets of Shape
Fit
Films cannot annul
Odors return whole
Force Flame
And with a Blonde push
Over your impotence
Flits Steam.
| Scheme | AABCDEFGHIJK |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10111 011111 11 11001 11011 1 11010 10011 11 01011 101100 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 212 |
| Words | 41 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 169 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 01, 2023
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