Analysis of Cocoon above! Cocoon below!
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Cocoon above! Cocoon below!
Stealthy Cocoon, why hide you so
What all the world suspect?
An hour, and gay on every tree
Your secret, perched in ecstasy
Defies imprisonment!
An hour in Chrysalis to pass,
Then gay above receding grass
A Butterfly to go!
A moment to interrogate,
Then wiser than a "Surrogate,"
The Universe to know!
| Scheme | AAXBBX CCAXXA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01010101 10011111 110101 1100111001 11010100 010100 110010011 11010101 01011 0101010 11010100 01011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 326 |
| Words | 60 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 130 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 30, 2023
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